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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「鬼頭滑腦」 for your learning.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「鬼頭滑腦」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Describes behavior that is secretive and not upright. Same as “sneaky”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǐ tóu huá nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai2 tau4 waat6 nou5

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.