衣冠禽兽
yī guān qín shòu
Pinyin

Definition

衣冠禽兽
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yī guān qín shòu
  1. lit. dressed up animal (idiom)
  2. fig. immoral and despicable person

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

冠军
guàn jūn
  1. 1 champion
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
大衣
dà yī
  1. 1 overcoat
  2. 2 topcoat
  3. 3 cloak
  4. 4 CL:件[jiàn]
毛衣
máo yī
  1. 1 (wool) sweater
  2. 2 CL:件[jiàn]
衣
yī
  1. 1 clothes
  2. 2 CL:件[jiàn]
  3. 3 Kangxi radical 145
衣服
yī fu
  1. 1 clothes
  2. 2 CL:件[jiàn],套[tào]
上衣
shàng yī
  1. 1 jacket
  2. 2 upper outer garment
  3. 3 CL:件[jiàn]
内衣
nèi yī
  1. 1 undergarment
  2. 2 underwear
  3. 3 CL:件[jiàn]
冠
Guàn
  1. 1 surname Guan
冠军赛
guàn jūn sài
  1. 1 championship
外衣
wài yī
  1. 1 outer clothing
  2. 2 semblance
  3. 3 appearance
夺冠
duó guàn
  1. 1 to seize the crown
  2. 2 fig. to win a championship
  3. 3 to win gold medal
更衣室
gēng yī shì
  1. 1 change room
  2. 2 dressing room
  3. 3 locker room
  4. 4 toilet
棉衣
mián yī
  1. 1 cotton-padded clothes
  2. 2 CL:件[jiàn]
泳衣
yǒng yī
  1. 1 swimsuit
  2. 2 bathing suit
洗衣
xǐ yī
  1. 1 laundry
洗衣机
xǐ yī jī
  1. 1 washer
  2. 2 washing machine
  3. 3 CL:臺|台[tái]
洗衣粉
xǐ yī fěn
  1. 1 laundry detergent
  2. 2 washing powder
王冠
wáng guān
  1. 1 crown
皇冠
huáng guān
  1. 1 crown (headgear)
睡衣
shuì yī
  1. 1 night clothes
  2. 2 pajamas

Idioms (20)

冠冕堂皇
guān miǎn táng huáng
  1. 1 high-sounding
  2. 2 dignified
  3. 3 pompous (idiom)
天衣无缝
tiān yī wú fèng
  1. 1 lit. seamless heavenly clothes (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. flawless
宵衣旰食
xiāo yī gàn shí
  1. 1 to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom)
  2. 2 diligently attending to official matters
峨冠博带
é guān bó dài
  1. 1 official class
  2. 2 intellectual class (idiom)
张冠李戴
Zhāng guān Lǐ dài
  1. 1 lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
  2. 2 to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)
  3. 3 to confuse one thing with another
弹冠相庆
tán guān xiāng qìng
  1. 1 lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment
  2. 2 to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
怒发冲冠
nù fà chōng guān
  1. 1 lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. seething in anger
  3. 3 raise one's hackles
沐猴而冠
mù hóu ér guàn
  1. 1 lit. a monkey wearing a hat (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. worthless person in imposing attire
牛衣对泣
niú yī duì qì
  1. 1 couple living in destitute misery (idiom)
瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠
guā tián bù nà lu:3 , lǐ xià bù zhěng guān
  1. 1 lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion
  3. 3 innocent acts may be misconstrued
白衣苍狗
bái yī cāng gǒu
  1. 1 lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
相体裁衣
xiàng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 lit. tailor the clothes to fit the body (idiom); fig. act according to real circumstances
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣
kān cài chī fàn , liáng tǐ cái yī
  1. 1 eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure
  2. 2 to act according to actual circumstances
  3. 3 to live within one's means
节衣缩食
jié yī suō shí
  1. 1 to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
缩衣节食
suō yī jié shí
  1. 1 to economize on clothes and food
  2. 2 to scrimp and save (idiom)
腰金衣紫
yāo jīn yī zǐ
  1. 1 golden seal at the waist, purple gown (idiom); in official position
衣不蔽体
yī bù bì tǐ
  1. 1 lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. poverty-stricken
衣冠禽兽
yī guān qín shòu
  1. 1 lit. dressed up animal (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. immoral and despicable person
衣单食薄
yī dān shí bó
  1. 1 thin coat, meager food (idiom); life of wretched poverty
  2. 2 destitute
衣锦荣归
yī jǐn róng guī
  1. 1 to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory

Sample Sentences

您觉得，如果一个所谓的新好男人，最后被人发现原来是衣冠禽兽的时候，人们会怎么想？
nín juéde ，rúguǒ yī ge suǒwèi de xīnhǎo nánrén ，zuìhòu bèi rén fāxiàn yuánlái shì yīguānqínshòu de shíhou ，rénmen huì zěnme xiǎng ？
Do you think that if a so-called, ‘new good man’, is, in the end, discovered to be a 'beast in human clothing' all along, how would people feel?
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