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出洋相

chū yáng xiàng

HSK 6 3-character word

What 出洋相 means

1. to make a fool of oneself

The characters in 出洋相

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually

Example sentences

• 你要是再给我们公司出洋相，我可就不客气了。
  Nǐ yàoshi zài gěi wǒmen gōngsī chūyángxiàng, wǒ kějiù bù kèqi le.
  If you make fun of our company again, we certainly won’t be polite to you.

Where 出洋相 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóu–chū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū yáng xiàng correctly.
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