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油腔滑調
简 油腔滑调 · 繁 油腔滑調Mandarin · pinyin yóu qiāng huá diào
Meanings
- flippant and insincere (piece of writing or speech)
- glib-tongued
- oily
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Mandarin tones
2–1–2–4 · you2 qiang1 hua2 diao4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jau4 hong1 waat6 diu6
Cantonese word readings for 油腔滑調. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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jau4 hong1 waat6 diu6
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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phrase
- (idiomatic) for one's words to be unserious and insincere
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