马屁馬屁 in English
- horse hindquarters / flattery / boot-licking
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 馬, the traditional character: 马 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 35 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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你得先拍拍他的马屁。
You have to butter the guy up first.
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马屁拍在马脚上。
He chose to kiss up to someone, but stepped on a landmine instead.
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马屁精!
Asskisser!