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癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉

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8-character word Traditional 癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉

What 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉 means

1. lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom)
2. fig. to try to punch above one's weight

The characters in 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉

• 癞làiscabies; skin disease
• 蛤gé(bound form) clam; used in 蛤蚧
• 蟆mátoad
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 鹅égoose
• 肉ròumeat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit)