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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「頭昏腦脹」, with more below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「頭昏腦脹」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Feeling dizzy. Used to describe people being busy or things being confusing and annoying.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tóu hūn nǎo zhàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

nou5 jeung3 腦脹

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