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鱼目混珠

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4-character word Traditional 魚目混珠

What 鱼目混珠 means

1. to pass off fish eyes for pearls
2. to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)

The characters in 鱼目混珠

• 鱼yúfish; used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 混hùnto mix; to mingle; muddled
• 珠zhūbead; pearl