剖腹藏珠 Save Create a free account to save words pōufùcángzhū ㄆㄡ ㄈㄨˋ ㄘㄤˊ ㄓㄨ 男 女 lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom) fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities Character by character 剖(pōu)cut open 腹(fù)stomach 藏(cáng)hide away 珠(zhū)pearl Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0