卖猪仔

賣豬仔
màizhūzǎi

to sell someone into indentured servitude of forced labour; to blackbird

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

=1 卖 mài
  1. to sell
  2. to betray
  3. to spare no effort
  4. to show off or flaunt
=1 卖 yù
  1. (historical dictionaries only) to hawk; to peddle in the street
  2. Original form of 鬻 (yù, “to sell”).
  3. alternative form of 儥 /𰂏 (yù, “to sell”)
  4. to hawk; to peddle in the street
2 猪仔 zhūzǎi
  1. piglet
  2. (old) exploited Chinese laborer tricked into working abroad