| 出洋相 |
chū yáng xiàng |
to make a fool of oneself |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 出洋 |
chū yáng |
to go abroad (old) |
| 洋 |
yáng |
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin |
| 洋相 |
yáng xiàng |
social gaffe or blunder / faux pas / see 出洋相 |
| 相 |
Xiāng |
surname Xiang |
| 相 |
xiāng |
each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶 (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品) |
| 相 |
xiàng |
appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) |