指桑骂槐 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 指桑罵槐 zhǐsāngmàhuái ㄓˇ ㄙㄤ ㄇㄚˋ ㄏㄨㄞˊ lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree fig. to scold sb indirectly to make oblique accusations (idiom) Character by character 指(zhǐ)finger 桑(sāng)surname Sang 骂(mà)scold 槐(huái)Chinese scholar tree A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0