lit. a needle concealed in silk floss (idiom); fig. ruthless character behind a gentle appearance; a wolf in sheep's clothing; an iron fist in a velvet glove
trad. 綿裡藏針
Also written 綿裡藏針【mián lǐ cáng zhēn】
Characters in this word
4绵
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silk floss, continuous, soft, weak, mild-mannered (dialect)
- Pinyin
- mián
- Traditional
- 綿
- Strokes
- 11
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
针
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needle, pin, injection, stitch, CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- zhēn
- Traditional
- 針
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9180 of 2500