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生吞活剥

shēng tūn huó bō

4-character word Traditional 生吞活剝

What 生吞活剥 means

1. to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

The characters in 生吞活剥

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 吞tūnto swallow; to take
• 活huóto live; alive; living
• 剥bōto peel; to skin; to flay

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