虎落平陽被犬欺

虎落平阳被犬欺
luòpíngyángbèiquǎn

a man who loses position and influence may be subjected to much indignity

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 tiger

classifier:

=2
  1. to leave out
  2. to be missing
  3. to leave behind or forget to bring
  4. to lag or fall behind
=2 lào colloquial reading for luò in certain compounds
=2 luò
  1. to fall or drop
  2. (of the sun) to set
  3. (of a tide) to go out
  4. to lower
  5. to decline or sink
  6. to lag or fall behind
  7. to fall onto
  8. to rest with
  9. to get or receive
  10. to write down
  11. whereabouts
  12. settlement
=3 平陽 Píngyáng Pingyang county in Wenzhou 溫州 Wēnzhōu, Zhejiang
=3 平陽 píngyáng
  1. (dialectal or in fixed phrases) plain; field
  2. (historical) Pingyang Commandery (present-day Linfen, Shanxi province, China)
  3. (~) Bình Dương (a former province of Vietnam) (abolished in 2025)
  4. (~) Pingyang (a county of Zhejiang, China)
  5. (~) (historical) Pingyang Commandery (present-day Linfen, Shanxi province, China)
  6. Bình Dương (a former province of Vietnam) (abolished in 2025)
  7. Pingyang (a county of Zhejiang, China)
  8. plain; field
=4 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=4
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=4
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=4 alternative form of
5 quǎn
  1. (literary) dog
  2. Kangxi radical 94
6
  1. to take unfair advantage of
  2. to deceive
  3. to cheat