Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「臉紅耳赤」—details below.
Here’s the idiom 「臉紅耳赤」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Describes the look of being emotionally excited or shy. Also written as “blushing face and hot ears”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liǎn hóng ěr chì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lim5 hung4 yi5 chek3
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