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猫哭老鼠

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4-character word Traditional 貓哭老鼠

What 猫哭老鼠 means

1. the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence
2. crocodile tears

The characters in 猫哭老鼠

• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 哭kūto cry; to weep
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 鼠shǔ(bound form) rat; mouse