身在曹营心在汉 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 身在曹營心在漢 shēnzàicáoyíngxīnzàihàn ㄕㄣ ㄗㄞˋ ㄘㄠˊ ㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄗㄞˋ ㄏㄢˋ live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else Character by character 身(shēn)body 在(zài)exist 曹(cáo)surname Cao 营(yíng)camp 心(xīn)heart 在(zài)exist 汉(hàn)Han ethnic group A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0