抛头露面 (pāo tóu lù miàn) — to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly) · Chinese · Nantoka

pāo tóu lù miàn

Traditional: 拋頭露面

抛头露面 (pāo tóu lù miàn) is a Chinese word meaning “to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)”.

Meanings

1to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)

Characters in 抛头露面

抛pāo · to throw 头tóu · head 露lòu · to show 面miàn · face

Related words

头head 头suffix for nouns 里面inside 里面variant of 裡面|里面[li3 mian4]外面outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense)上面on top of 后面the back; the rear; the last bit 头发hair (on the head)面face 面flour 面variant of 麵|面[mian4]下面below

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