Chinese Vocabulary
冒名顶替
impersonation / identity-theft substitution
màomíng dǐngtì
Usage
Identity impersonation, especially the kind where one person fully takes over another's identity for a benefit. The four-character phrase has carried Chinese news for years — exam-result theft, college admissions, now marriage registrations.
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