焦头烂额 jiāo tóu làn é

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焦头烂额

jiāotóulàné

fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)

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MEANING2 meanings

壹形adjective
fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
- ，。
  He has had too much work recently and has been so busy that his hair is disheveled and his face is dark with exhaustion.
貳形adjective
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom)
- ，。
  He has been working too much recently and is so busy that his head is in a mess.

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焦头烂额

Traditional焦頭爛額

jiāotóulàné

fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)

2 meanings#41357

MEANING2 meanings

壹形adjective
fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
- ，。
  He has had too much work recently and has been so busy that his hair is disheveled and his face is dark with exhaustion.
貳形adjective
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom)
- ，。
  He has been working too much recently and is so busy that his head is in a mess.

STROKE ORDER

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解字

焦

A bird caught by fire burning underneath gets scorched, which is the meaning of the character 焦.

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