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衣冠禽兽

yī guān qín shòu

4-character word Traditional 衣冠禽獸

What 衣冠禽兽 means

1. lit. dressed up animal (idiom)
2. fig. immoral and despicable person

The characters in 衣冠禽兽

• 衣yīclothes; Kangxi radical 145
• 冠guànto put on a hat; to be first; to dub
• 禽qín(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals; old variant of 擒
• 兽shòubeast; animal; beastly

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