掛羊頭賣狗肉 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 挂羊头卖狗肉 guàyángtóumàigǒuròu ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄧㄤˊ ㄊㄡˊ ㄇㄞˋ ㄍㄡˇ ㄖㄡˋ lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom) fig. to cheat dishonest advertising wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue Character by character 掛(guà)hang 羊(yáng)surname Yang 頭(tóu)head 賣(mài)sell 狗(gǒu)dog 肉(ròu)meat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0