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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「昏頭昏腦」 for your learning.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「昏頭昏腦」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Describes a feeling of dizziness and disorientation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hūn tóu hūn nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan1 tau4 fan1 nou5

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