Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「汗出浹背」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「汗出浹背」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Describes being very frightened or extremely scared. It is now also used to describe sweating a lot, with the clothes on the back being soaked. Same as “sweating profusely”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hàn chū jiā bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon6 cheut1 jip3 bui3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
