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作脸
zuò​liǎn

to bring honor

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
作脸 作臉 zuò//liǎn
to bring honor
To do credit to someone; to bring honor or glory to someone
to save face
To do something purely for the sake of appearance or to maintain one's outward reputation.

Frequency

Written text
0.023 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 争光 zhēng​guāng
  • 争气 zhēng​qì

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)