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弄虚作假

nòng xū zuò jiǎ

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 弄虛作假

弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ) means "to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 弄虚作假 means

1. to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

The characters in 弄虚作假

• 弄nòngto do; to manage; to handle
• 虚xūemptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 假jiǎfake; false; artificial

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