Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「油頭滑面」, with details below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「油頭滑面」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Used to describe a person who is cunning and frivolous. Same as “greasy face”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yóu tóu huá miàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau2/yau4 tau4 waat6 min6/min2
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