虚张声势
Traditional form:
虛張聲勢
Pinyin (reading):
xūzhāngshēngshì
Definitions:
- (false) bravado
- to bluff
Characters:
- 虚 - false; worthless, hollow, empty; vain
- 张 - to display; to expand, to open; to stretch; a sheet of paper
- 声 - sound, noise; voice, tone, music
- 势 - power, force; tendency, attitude
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