4 characters Idiom and proverb 7 806

Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「有頭有腦」.

Here, we present the idiom 「有頭有腦」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

A metaphor for being organized and having a clue.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu tóu yǒu nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 tau4 yau5 nou5

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