created sense approved 阉然/閹然 · yānrán · hiding one's true character to please others — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
阉然 / 閹然
yānrán
hiding one's true character to please others
(literary) behaving in a hidden or sycophantic manner; hiding one's true character to please others (as used in Mencius to describe a hypocrite)
阉 (literal) → 阉/閹 · yān · to castrate 然 (bound) → 然 · rán · [state]
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition