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擺譜兒 (baai2 pou2 ji4) — to keep up appearances; to be ostentatious in Cantonese

baaiˊ²擺pouˊ²譜jiˎ₄兒
简 摆谱儿
Mandarin Pinyin: bai3 pur3

Meaning of 擺譜兒

nounto keep up appearances; to be ostentatious

Characters in 擺譜兒

擺baai2
wave; sway; swing; wag
譜pou2
manual; guidebook; guide
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

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