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佛口蛇心
  fat6 hau2 se4 sam1   jyutping
  fo2 kou3 she2 xin1   pinyin
someone who appears to be gentle on the outside, but has bad intentions on the inside (lit. Buddha mouth, snake heart)

Idiom

Level: 4
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
佛口蛇心

This word has been viewed 1583 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Steph_fr on 27th Aug 2008 04:15 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 fat6  -  Buddha; Buddhist; Buddhism
 hau2  -  mouth
 se4 ji4 seu4  -  snake
 sam1  -  heart
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