茅坑裡點燈 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 茅坑里点灯 máokēnglǐdiǎndēng ㄇㄠˊ ㄎㄥ ㄌㄧˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄉㄥ (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死 zhǎosǐ via its near homophone 照屎 zhàoshǐ) slang Character by character 茅(máo)surname Mao 坑(kēng)pit 裡(lǐ)lining 點(diǎn)point 燈(dēng)lamp A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0