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  1. to show warm feelings but meet with cold rebuke (idiom); to be snubbed despite showing good intentions

    trad. 熱臉貼冷屁股

Also written 熱臉貼冷屁股【rè liǎn tiē lěng pì gu】

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6
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to stick, to paste, to post (e.g. on a blog), to keep close to, to fit snugly, to subsidize, allowance (e.g. money for food or housing), sticker, classifier for sticking plaster: strip

Pinyin
tiē
Traditional
Strokes
9
Frequency
4447 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

thigh, part of a whole; portion of a sum, (finance) stock; share, strand of a thread, low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1], classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc, classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff, classifier for bands of people, gangs etc, classifier for sudden forceful actions

Pinyin
Strokes
8
Frequency
12652 of 2500