flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom); highly embellished and ineffectual; fancy but impractical skills; all show and no go; pugilistic wankery
trad. 花拳繡腿
Also written 花拳繡腿【huā quán xiù tuǐ】
Characters in this word
4花
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surname Hua
- Pinyin
- Huā
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 755 of 2500
拳
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fist, boxing
- Pinyin
- quán
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 7776 of 2500
绣
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variant of 繡|绣[xiu4]
- Pinyin
- xiù
- Traditional
- 綉
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 20215 of 2500
腿
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leg, CL:條|条[tiao2]
- Pinyin
- tuǐ
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 1162 of 2500