lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom); fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
trad. 焦頭爛額
Also written 焦頭爛額【jiāo tóu làn é】
Characters in this word
4焦
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surname Jiao
- Pinyin
- Jiāo
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 21489 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
烂
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soft; mushy, well-cooked and soft, to rot; to decompose, rotten, worn out, chaotic; messy, utterly; thoroughly, crappy; bad
- Pinyin
- làn
- Traditional
- 爛
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2878 of 2500
额
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variant of 額|额[e2]
- Pinyin
- é
- Traditional
- 頟
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 3214 of 2500