巧立名目 Save Sign in to save words qiǎolìmíngmù ㄑㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄨˋ to fabricate excuses (idiom) to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account) Character by character 巧(qiǎo)opportunely 立(lì)surname Li 名(míng)name 目(mù)eye A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0