Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鼠目麞頭」 and how it’s used.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「鼠目麞頭」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Zhang, same as “zhang”. Used to describe a person with an ugly appearance and a cunning look. Same as “rat eyes and deer head”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ mù zhāng tóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syu2 muk6 jeung1 tau4
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