吃裡扒外

吃裡扒外

See also: 吃里扒外

Chinese

		eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer	inside; within; in inside; within; in; lining of clothing	climb; crawl; snatch climb; crawl; snatch; pull (out); to strip; hold on to; cling to; dig up; rake; push aside	outside; in addition; foreign outside; in addition; foreign; external
trad. (吃裡扒外)		吃	裡	扒	外
simp. (吃里扒外)		吃	里	扒	外
variant forms		吃裡爬外／吃里爬外

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chīlǐpáwài

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄚˊ ㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hek³ leoi⁵ paa⁴ ngoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chīlǐpáwài
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄚˊ ㄨㄞˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyliiparway
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihlǐpáwài
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ pʰä³⁵ waɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hek³ leoi⁵ paa⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Yale: hek léuih pàh ngoih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hek⁸ loey⁵ paa⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hég³ lêu⁵ pa⁴ ngoi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛːk̚³ lɵy̯¹³ pʰäː²¹ ŋɔːy̯²²/

Idiom

吃裡扒外

1. to live off someone while helping others; to repay a kindness by stabbing someone in the back