埋汰
mái tai
Pinyin
Definition
埋汰
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- (dialect) dirty
- to mock sb
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to bury
- 1 to ambush
- 2 to lie in wait for
- 3 to lie low
- 4 ambush
- 1 to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese)
- 2 (fig.) to bear responsibility
- 1 to complain
- 2 to grumble (about)
- 3 to reproach
- 4 to blame
- 1 to engulf
- 2 to bury
- 3 to overlook
- 4 to stifle
- 5 to neglect
- 6 to fall into oblivion
Idioms (4)
优胜劣汰
- 1 survival of the fittest (idiom)
埋头苦干
- 1 to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work
- 2 to make an all-out effort
- 3 up to the neck in work
汰旧换新
- 1 out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
葬玉埋香
- 1 lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom); funeral for a beautiful person