潘金莲熬药，暗地里放毒潘金蓮熬藥，暗地裡放毒潘金蓮熬藥，暗地裏放毒

Pan Jinlian brewing medicine: secretly putting in poison

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Widely known

Meaning: Describes someone who seems kind on the surface but secretly does harm. Critical. Pan Jinlian is the woman in Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei who poisons her husband.

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Simplified: 潘金莲熬药，暗地里放毒
Traditional (Taiwan): 潘金蓮熬藥，暗地裡放毒
Traditional (Hong Kong): 潘金蓮熬藥，暗地裏放毒
Pinyin: Pān Jīnlián áoyào, àndìli fàngdú
Bopomofo: ㄆㄢㄐㄧㄣㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄠˊ ㄧㄠˋ，ㄢˋ ㄉㄧˋ ˙ㄌㄧㄈㄤˋ ㄉㄨˊ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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暗(àn)地(dì)里(li)secretly

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