







to play the bad cop
to play the villain
to take the tough stance
One coaxes, the other coerces.
Yet America and Europe have also stumbled on a workable good-cop, bad-cop routine.

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Open the tool →唱白脸 (chàng bái liǎn) means “to play the bad cop, to play the villain, to take the tough stance”.
唱白脸 is pronounced chàng bái liǎn in Mandarin Chinese.
“to play the bad cop” is 唱白脸 (chàng bái liǎn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 唱白脸, each with pinyin and an English translation.