- lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products
- to masquerade as having an ability
- token member of a group
Characters
- 滥 (濫): overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
- 竽 (竽): free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China
- 充 (充): sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as; to act falsely as; to pose as
- 数 (數): to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
Resources
- Wiktionary: 滥竽充数
- MDBG: 滥竽充数
- Examples with 滥竽充数 on Tatoeba
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