Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「搔頭抓耳」.
Here’s the idiom 「搔頭抓耳」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Scratch your scalp and touch your ears. Describes an anxious expression.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sāo tóu zhuā ěr
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sou1 tau4 jaau2 yi5
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
