héng tiāo bí zi shù tiāo yǎn

Traditional: 橫挑鼻子豎挑眼

横挑鼻子竖挑眼 (héng tiāo bí zi shù tiāo yǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to pick on sth incessantly (idiom); to criticize right and left”.

Meanings

  1. 1to pick on sth incessantly (idiom)
  2. 2to criticize right and left

Characters in 横挑鼻子竖挑眼

横héng · horizontal挑tiāo · to carry on a shoulder pole鼻bí · nose子zǐ · son竖shù · to erect挑tiāo · to carry on a shoulder pole眼yǎn · eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1])

Related words

孩子child儿子son房子house妻子wife and children妻子wife案子long table; counter眼睛eye样子appearance小子(literary) youngster小子(coll.) boy子son子noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"

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