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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.