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开黑店

kāi hēi diàn

3-character word Traditional 開黑店

What 开黑店 means

1. lit. to open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)
2. fig. to carry out a scam
3. to run a protection racket
4. daylight robbery

The characters in 开黑店

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 黑hēiblack; dark; sinister
• 店diàninn; old-style hotel; (bound form) shop; store

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