lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products; to masquerade as having an ability; token member of a group
trad. 濫竽充數
Also written 濫竽充數【làn yú chōng shù】
Characters in this word
4滥
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overflowing, excessive, indiscriminate
- Pinyin
- làn
- Traditional
- 濫
- Strokes
- 13
竽
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free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China
- Pinyin
- yú
- Strokes
- 9
充
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sufficient; full, to fill, to serve as; to act as, to act falsely as; to pose as
- Pinyin
- chōng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 30299 of 2500
数
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to count, to count as; to regard as, to enumerate; to list
- Pinyin
- shǔ
- Traditional
- 數
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 4576 of 2500