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脸上贴金

liǎn shàng tiē jīn

4-character word Traditional 臉上貼金

What 脸上贴金 means

1. (lit.) to apply gold leaf to the face of a statue (idiom)
2. (fig.) to talk up; to extol the virtues of (oneself or sb else)

The characters in 脸上贴金

• 脸liǎnface
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 贴tiēto stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog)
• 金jīngold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals