打肿脸充胖子 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 打腫臉充胖子 dǎzhǒngliǎnchōngpàngzi ㄉㄚˇ ㄓㄨㄥˇ ㄌㄧㄢˇ ㄔㄨㄥ ㄆㄤˋ ˙ㄗ lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom) to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities Character by character 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 肿(zhǒng)swell 脸(liǎn)face 充(chōng)sufficient 胖(pàng)fat 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0