爭面子 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 争面子 zhēngmiànzi ㄓㄥ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ˙ㄗ to do (sb) proud to be a credit to (one's school etc) to make oneself look good to build up one's image Character by character 爭(zhēng)strive for 面(miàn)face 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