家醜不可外揚 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 家丑不可外扬 jiāchǒubùkěwàiyáng ㄐㄧㄚ ㄔㄡˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄨㄞˋ ㄧㄤˊ lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public Character by character 家(jiā)home 醜(chǒu)shameful 不(bù)no 可(kě)can 外(wài)outside 揚(yáng)surname Yang A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0