DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

死皮賴臉

简死皮赖脸 · 繁死皮賴臉

Mandarin · pinyin sǐ pí lài liǎn

brazen faced (idiom); shameless

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

死: sǐ · die; dead; death
皮: pí · skin, hide, fur, feather; outer
賴: Look up this written character
臉: liǎn · face; cheek; reputation
赖: lài · rely, depend on; accuse falsely
脸: liǎn · face; cheek; reputation

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–2–4–3 · si3 pi2 lai4 lian3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

死皮賴臉 · find source passages ↗ · 死皮赖脸 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

phrase

(idiomatic) brazen and unreasonable; thick-skinned and hard to shake off

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack