kōng​jià​zi

empty frame

空架子 kōng​jià​zi
empty frame
bare outline; mere skeleton; an empty frame or facade. Used to describe something that has an impressive appearance or formal structure but lacks actual substance or content, such as a hollow organization or a poorly written essay

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.242 per million

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