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花拳绣腿

huā quán xiù tuǐ

4-character word Traditional 花拳繡腿

What 花拳绣腿 means

  1. flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom)
  2. highly embellished and ineffectual
  3. fancy but impractical skills
  4. all show and no go
  5. pugilistic wankery

The characters in 花拳绣腿

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