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装zhuāng腔qiāng作zuò势shì

  1. posturing; pretentious; affected

    trad. 裝腔作勢

Also written 裝腔作勢【zhuāng qiāng zuò shì】

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

Characters in this word

4
装
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

adornment, to adorn, dress, clothing, costume (of an actor in a play), to play a role, to pretend, to install, to fix, to wrap (sth in a bag), to load, to pack

Pinyin
zhuāng
Traditional
裝
Strokes
12
Frequency
1681 of 2500
Words starting with 装Words ending in 装Anywhere in a word
腔
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) cavity, (bound form) speech; talk, tune, accent (in one's speech), (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock

Pinyin
qiāng
Strokes
12
Frequency
3817 of 2500
Words starting with 腔Words ending in 腔Anywhere in a word
作
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) worker, (bound form) workshop, (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)

Pinyin
zuō
Strokes
7
Frequency
1866 of 2500
Words starting with 作Words ending in 作Anywhere in a word
势
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

power, influence, potential, momentum, tendency, trend, situation, conditions, outward appearance, sign, gesture, male genitals

Pinyin
shì
Traditional
勢
Strokes
8
Words starting with 势Words ending in 势Anywhere in a word