宠妾灭妻 — Chinese idiom
宠妾灭妻
chǒng qiè miè qī
Traditional: 寵妾滅妻
Meaning
- favor the concubine and do away with the wife
- spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
Character by character
- 宠chǒngto love; to favor, to pamper, to spoil; concubine
- 妾qièconcubine
- 灭mièto extinguish; to wipe out
- 妻qīwife
Idioms sharing a character
- 宠擅专房 chǒng shàn zhuān fáng
- 三妻四妾 sān qī sì qiè
- 亡国灭种 wáng guó miè zhǒng
- 假途灭虢 jiǎ tú miè Guó
- 大义灭亲 dà yì miè qīn
- 杀人灭口 shā rén miè kǒu
- 灭此朝食 miè cǐ zhāo shí
- 灭绝人性 miè jué rén xìng
- 灭顶之灾 miè dǐng zhī zāi
- 灰飞烟灭 huī fēi yān miè
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