Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「抓耳搔腮」. Explanation below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「抓耳搔腮」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Describes the feeling of being anxious, depressed, and angry and unable to think of a solution. It also describes the feeling of being so happy that you don’t know what to do.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhuā ěr sāo sāi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jaau2 yi5 sou1 soi1
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