to pass off fish eyes for pearls; to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)
trad. 魚目混珠
Also written 魚目混珠【yú mù hùn zhū】
Characters in this word
4鱼
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surname Yu
- Pinyin
- Yú
- Traditional
- 魚
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1545 of 2500
目
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eye, (literary) to look; to regard, eye (of a net); mesh, mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]), item; section, list; catalogue, (taxonomy) order, name; title
- Pinyin
- mù
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 15224 of 2500
混
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muddy; turbid (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]), brainless; foolish (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]), Taiwan pr. [hun4]
- Pinyin
- hún
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2976 of 2500
珠
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bead, pearl, CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 20415 of 2500