From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「撒嬌撒癡」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「撒嬌撒癡」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Sa: to try one’s best to do or display; Jiao: to be coquettish; Chi: to be silly. Describes the act of being deliberately pretentious because of being favored by others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sā jiāo sā chī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 giu1 saat3 chi1
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