告状 (告狀)
gào zhuàng
Pinyin

Definition

告状 (告狀)
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gào zhuàng
  1. to tell on sb
  2. to complain (to a teacher, a superior etc)
  3. to bring a lawsuit

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

告别
gào bié
  1. 1 to leave
  2. 2 to bid farewell to
  3. 3 to say good-bye to
告诉
gào sù
  1. 1 to press charges
  2. 2 to file a complaint
报告
bào gào
  1. 1 to inform
  2. 2 to report
  3. 3 to make known
  4. 4 report
  5. 5 speech
  6. 6 talk
  7. 7 lecture
  8. 8 classifier: 篇 piān
  9. 9 classifier: 份 fèn
  10. 10 classifier: 个 gè
  11. 11 classifier: 通 tòng
广告
guǎng gào
  1. 1 to advertise
  2. 2 a commercial
  3. 3 advertisement
  4. 4 classifier: 项 xiàng
公告
gōng gào
  1. 1 post
  2. 2 announcement

Idioms (10)

乞哀告怜
qǐ āi gào lián
  1. 1 begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)
告一段落
gào yī duàn luò
  1. 1 to come to the end of a phase (idiom)
哀告宾服
āi gào bīn fú
  1. 1 to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit
奔走相告
bēn zǒu xiāng gào
  1. 1 to spread the news (idiom)
户告人晓
hù gào rén xiǎo
  1. 1 to make known to every household (idiom); to disseminate widely
  2. 2 to shout from the rooftops

Sample Sentences

也不是都没人介意，包得太少、太寒酸，还是有人会在背后讲话的，像去年，我表姐包给我大哥的孩子一人两千块，我大哥的想法跟你一样，只包给表姐的孩子一人两百块，意思一下，表姐就跟我阿姨埋怨，说我大哥小气，阿姨又去跟我妈告状，我大哥今年就很烦恼到底该包多少，包多了其实他也负担不起。
yě bù shì dōu méi rén jièyì ，bāo de tài shǎo 、tài hánsuān ，háishì yǒurén huì zài bèihòu jiǎnghuà de ，xiàng qùnián ，wǒ biǎojiě bāo gěi wǒ dàgē de háizi yī rén liǎng qiān kuài ，wǒ dàgē de xiǎngfǎ gēn nǐ yīyàng ，zhǐ bāo gěi biǎojiě de háizi yī rén liǎngbǎi kuài ，yìsi yīxià ，biǎojiě jiù gēn wǒ āyí mányuàn ，shuō wǒ dàgē xiǎoqì ，āyí yòu qù gēn wǒ mā gàozhuàng ，wǒ dàgē jīnnián jiù hěn fánnǎo dàodǐ gāi bāo duōshao ，bāo duō le qíshí tā yě fùdān bùqǐ 。
It's not that no one cares, if you put too little in or are too tight-fisted, people will talk about you behind your back, like last year, my cousin gave my eldest brother's children RMB2000 each. My brother thinks the same as you and so gave my cousin's children RMB200 each, of the mind that it's just about the spirit of things, but my cousin complained to my auntie, saying my brother is tight-fisted, then my auntie went and told my mother, so my brother was a little perplexed as to how much to give this year, as he doesn't have the resources to give so much.
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