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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 「蠍蠍螫螫」, with details below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「蠍蠍螫螫」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It describes a person who is fussy and shows excessive concern and sympathy over small matters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiē xiē shì shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hit3/kit3 hit3/kit3 sik1 sik1

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.