一塌糊塗 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 一塌糊涂 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yītāhútu ㄧ ㄊㄚ ㄏㄨˊ ˙ㄊㄨ 男 女 muddled and completely collapsing (idiom) in an awful condition complete shambles a total mess Character by character 一(yī)one 塌(tā)collapse 糊(hú)paste 塗(tu)apply A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT