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扮豬食老虎
  baan6 zyu1 sik6 lou5 fu2   jyutping
pretending to be the fool; feigning ignorance (Lit. play the pig to eat the tiger) []: 扮豬吃老虎


Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
扮豬食老虎 / 扮猪食老虎

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Characters in this word:

 baan6 baan3  -  act as; dress up as; pretend
 zyu1  -  pig
 sik6 zi6  -  eat; food
 lou5  -  old, venerable
 fu2  -  tiger
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