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.

