What does 夸张 mean?
夸张
exaggerated; over the top; to exaggerate
It can also mean
- (rhetoric) hyperbole
Its characters
- 夸 to boast
- 张 classifier for flat objects (paper, tables, beds, faces)
In a sentence
你说得也太夸张了吧！ Aren't you exaggerating a bit too much!
不过，很多现代学者觉得这个数字太夸张了，他们认为宝船可能只有六七十米长。
From 郑和是谁？ · Who was Zheng He? China's admiral of the treasure ships
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