雞蛋裡挑骨頭 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鸡蛋里挑骨头 jīdànlitiāogǔtou ㄐㄧ ㄉㄢˋ ˙ㄌㄧ ㄊㄧㄠ ㄍㄨˇ ˙ㄊㄡ to look for bones in an egg to find fault to nitpick (idiom) Character by character 雞(jī)fowl 蛋(dàn)egg 裡(li)lining 挑(tiāo)carry on a shoulder pole 骨(gǔ)bone 頭(tou)suffix for nouns A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0