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苦肉計
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self-injury (or self-torture) ruse; battered-body trick This trick requires someone to inflict an injury or feign a sacrifice on oneself in order to win the confidence or pity of one's enemy. See [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]
Level: 3 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Characters in this word:苦 fu2 - bitter; painful; hard; suffer from肉 juk6 - meat 計 gai3 - count; compute; plan; scheme; idea; meter |
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: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.
Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.
: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).