招搖

招摇
zhāoyáo
  1. to rock back and forth
  2. (fig.) to act ostentatiously
  3. to brag
  4. to show off

CEDICT

  1. (Chinese astronomy) Big Dipper
  2. (Chinese astronomy) Eta Ursae Majoris
  3. (archaic) Osmanthus fragrans
  4. (archaic) The name of a mythological mountain.
  5. Big Dipper
  6. Eta Ursae Majoris
  7. Osmanthus fragrans
  8. The name of a mythological mountain.
  9. to act ostentatiously; to show off; to draw attention to oneself

Wiktionary

  1. 誇耀、張揚，以引人注意。
  2. 搖動。
  3. 星名。在北斗杓的尖端。《禮記．曲禮上》：「招搖在上，急繕其怒。」泛指北斗七星。《文選．陸機．擬古詩十二首．擬明月皎夜光》：「招搖西北指，天漢東南傾。」

重編國語辭典

Homographs

招搖 sháoyáo

Entry Composition

1 招 zhāo
  1. to recruit
  2. to provoke
  3. to beckon
  4. to incur
  5. to infect
  6. contagious
  7. a move (chess)
  8. a maneuver
  9. device
  10. trick
  11. to confess
2 搖 yáo
  1. to shake
  2. to rock
  3. to row
  4. to crank

Containing this entry

招搖撞騙 zhāoyáozhuàngpiàn (idiom) to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority
招搖過市 zhāoyáoguòshì (idiom) to parade oneself ostentatiously about town

Related entries

前仰後合 qiányǎnghòuhé
  1. to sway to and fro
  2. to rock back and forth
吹噓 chuīxū to brag
他吹嘘这场谋杀。

He bragged about the killing.

Source: Tatoeba

詡 xǔ
  1. to brag
  2. popular
  3. lovely
諞 piǎn
  1. to brag
  2. Taiwan pr. pián
嗙 pǎng
  1. (dialect) to boast
  2. to brag
  3. (onom.) sound of hitting sth
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