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金玉其外,敗絮其中
简 金玉其外,败絮其中 · 繁 金玉其外,敗絮其中Mandarin · pinyin jīn yù qí wài , bài xù qí zhōng
Meanings
- gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom)
Characters in this entry
- 金
- jīn · gold; metals in general; money; Kangxi radical 167
- 玉
- yù · jade, precious stone, gem
- 其
- qí · his, her, its, their; that
- 外
- wài · out, outside, external; foreign
- 敗
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- 絮
- xù · waste cotton, raw silk or cotton
- 中
- zhōng · central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
- 败
- bài · be defeated, decline, fail
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