lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom); fig. at a total loss
trad. 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦
Also written 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦【zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo】
Characters in this word
9丈
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measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m), to measure, husband, polite appellation for an older male
- Pinyin
- zhàng
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 25048 of 2500
二
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two, 2, (Beijing dialect) stupid
- Pinyin
- èr
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 1000 of 2500
和
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old variant of 和[he2]
- Pinyin
- hé
- Traditional
- 咊
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 27 of 2500
尚
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surname Shang
- Pinyin
- Shàng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 11512 of 2500
摸
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to feel with the hand, to touch, to stroke, to grope, to steal, to abstract
- Pinyin
- mō
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 2473 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
着
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variant of 著|着[zhao1]
- Pinyin
- zhāo
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 71 of 2500
头
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head, hair style, the top, end, beginning or end, a stub, remnant, chief, boss, side, aspect, first, leading, classifier for pigs or livestock, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- tóu
- Traditional
- 頭
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 773 of 2500
脑
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brain, mind, head, essence
- Pinyin
- nǎo
- Traditional
- 腦
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 10227 of 2500