Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「指手劃腳」, with its explanation below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「指手劃腳」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Use your fingers and feet. It describes the use of hands and feet to gesture while speaking, and also refers to blind giving of instructions and criticisms.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 sau2 waak6 geuk3
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.
