臭虫钻到花生壳里,充好仁儿臭蟲鑽到花生殼里,充好仁兒臭蟲鑽到花生殼里,充好仁兒

a bedbug crawls into a peanut shell: posing as a good kernel

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Mocks a bad person who passes himself off as a decent one. Critical; like 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'.
Wordplay: 仁儿 (rénr, kernel) is a pun on 人儿 (rénr, person): the bedbug poses as a good kernel, i.e. a good person.

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Simplified: 臭虫钻到花生壳里,充好仁儿
Traditional (Taiwan): 臭蟲鑽到花生殼里,充好仁兒
Pinyin: chòuchóng zuān dào huāshēng ké lǐ,chōnghǎo rénr
Bopomofo: ㄔㄡˋ ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄨㄢㄉㄠˋ ㄏㄨㄚㄕㄥㄎㄜˊ ㄌㄧˇ,ㄔㄨㄥㄏㄠˇ ㄖㄣˊㄦ

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

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