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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「手足無措」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「手足無措」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Cuo: to place. I don’t know where to put my hands and feet. Describes panicky behavior or inability to cope.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǒu zú wú cuò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sau2 juk1 mou4 chou3

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