








索垢吹瘢 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to pick faults”. To find fault with; to be hypercritical; to nitpick. Literally, “search for dirt and blow away scars”.

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Open the tool →索垢吹瘢 (suǒ gòu chuī bān) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to pick faults”.
索垢吹瘢 is pronounced suǒ gòu chuī bān in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 索垢吹瘢 means “search for dirt and blow away scars”. It is used to mean “to pick faults”.
犹言吹毛求疵。