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洋相

yáng xiàng

2-character word

What 洋相 means

1. social gaffe or blunder
2. faux pas
3. see {出洋相|chū yáng xiàng}

The characters in 洋相

• 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.

Words containing 洋相

• 出洋相chū yáng xiàngto make a fool of oneself