烟筒里招手,把人往黑处领煙筒里招手,把人往黑處領煙筒里招手,把人往黑處領

waving from inside a chimney: leading people toward the dark

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Leading people astray or into wrongdoing or crime. Critical.
Wordplay: 黑 (hēi) means both literally black/dark and figuratively dark, sinister or illegal.

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Simplified: 烟筒里招手,把人往黑处领
Traditional (Taiwan): 煙筒里招手,把人往黑處領
Pinyin: yāntong lǐ zhāoshǒu,bǎ rén wǎng hēi chù lǐng
Bopomofo: ㄧㄢ ˙ㄊㄨㄥㄌㄧˇ ㄓㄠㄕㄡˇ,ㄅㄚˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄨㄤˇ ㄏㄟㄔㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄥˇ

Written with HSK 6 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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