lit. a dagger hidden in smiles (idiom); friendly manners belying hypocritical intentions; when the fox preaches, look to the geese
trad. 笑裡藏刀
Also written 笑裡藏刀【xiào lǐ cáng dāo】
Characters in this word
4笑
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old variant of 笑[xiao4]
- Pinyin
- xiào
- Traditional
- 咲
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 534 of 2500
里
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variant of 裡|里[li3]
- Pinyin
- lǐ
- Traditional
- 裏
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 108 of 2500
藏
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Tibetan ethnic group, Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])
- Pinyin
- Zàng
- Strokes
- 17
- Frequency
- 1181 of 2500
刀
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surname Dao
- Pinyin
- Dāo
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 1717 of 2500