皮包骨头 — Chinese idiom
皮包骨头
pí bāo gǔ tóu
Traditional: 皮包骨頭
Meaning
- to be all skin and bones
- also written 皮包骨 (pí bāo gǔ)
Character by character
- 皮pískin, hide, fur, feathers
- 包bāowrap, pack, bundle; package
- 骨gǔbone; skeleton; frame, framework
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
Idioms sharing a character
- 死皮赖脸 sǐ pí lài liǎn
- 皮开肉绽 pí kāi ròu zhàn
- 磨嘴皮子 mó zuǐ pí zi
- 粘皮带骨 nián pí dài gǔ
- 细皮嫩肉 xì pí nèn ròu
- 羊质虎皮 yáng zhì hǔ pí
- 与狐谋皮 yǔ hú móu pí
- 与虎谋皮 yǔ hǔ móu pí
- 鸡毛蒜皮 jī máo suàn pí
- 食肉寝皮 shí ròu qǐn pí
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