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