賣面子 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 卖面子 màimiànzi ㄇㄞˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ˙ㄗ to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them) Character by character 賣(mài)sell 面(miàn)face 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" Other words read màimiànzi maimianzi with other tones 買面子 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0