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賣豬仔
  maai6 zyu1 zai2   jyutping
[1] to betray
[2] to play a trick on, to defraud, to con
[3] to sell someone into indentured servitude of hard labour (lit., "sell the little pig")

Traffickers lured a large number of young people going abroad to hard labor or prostitution, such that those unfortunate people were tantamount to livestock.
verb

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
賣豬仔

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Characters in this word:

 maai6  -  sell
 zyu1  -  pig
 zai2 zi2  -  son; child
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