居心叵测 — Chinese idiom
居心叵测
jū xīn pǒ cè
Traditional: 居心叵測
Meaning
- harboring unfathomable motives
Character by character
- 居jūto live, to reside; to dwell; to sit
- 心xīnheart; mind; soul
- 叵pǒcannot; to be unable; improbable; thereupon
- 测cèto survey, to measure; to estimate, to conjecture
Idioms sharing a character
- 功成不居 gōng chéng bù jū
- 安居乐业 ān jū lè yè
- 居功自傲 jū gōng zì ào
- 居安思危 jū ān sī wēi
- 居心不良 jū xīn bù liáng
- 居无定所 jū wú dìng suǒ
- 居高临下 jū gāo lín xià
- 后来居上 hòu lái jū shàng
- 翘居群首 qiáo jū qún shǒu
- 起居作息 qǐ jū zuò xī
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