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

Learn about the idiom 「慌手慌腳」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes busy movements.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huāng shǒu huāng jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fong1 sau2 fong1 geuk3

Chinese idioms encompass an enormous variety, each rich in its meanings and uses. We’ve compiled these resources to support your efforts in learning the language.