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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「破頭爛額」 for your learning.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「破頭爛額」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

It means a bloody head. Mostly used to describe a disastrous defeat.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pò tóu làn é

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

po3 tau4 laan6 ngaak2

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