péng tóu gòu miàn

Traditional: 蓬頭垢面

蓬头垢面 (péng tóu gòu miàn) is a Chinese word meaning “messy hair and dirty face; bad appearance”.

Meanings

  1. 1messy hair and dirty face
  2. 2bad appearance

Characters in 蓬头垢面

蓬péng · fleabane (family Asteraceae)头tóu · head垢gòu · dirt面miàn · face

Related words

头head头suffix for nouns里面inside里面variant of 裡面|里面[li3 mian4]外面outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense)上面on top of后面the back; the rear; the last bit头发hair (on the head)面face面flour面variant of 麵|面[mian4]下面below

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