wèi shǒu wèi wěi

畏首畏尾 (wèi shǒu wèi wěi) is a Chinese word meaning “afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous; afraid of the slightest thing”.

Meanings

  1. 1afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous
  2. 2afraid of the slightest thing

Characters in 畏首畏尾

畏wèi · to fear首shǒu · head畏wèi · to fear尾wěi · tail

Related words

首head首先first of all; in the first place尾tail尾horse's tail首席chief (representative, correspondent etc)鸡尾酒(calque) cocktail结尾ending尾巴tail元首head of state首相prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)自首to give oneself up首要the most important

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