心猿意马 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 心猿意馬 xīnyuányìmǎ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄩㄢˊ ㄧˋ ㄇㄚˇ lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom) fig. capricious (derog.) to have ants in one's pants hyperactive adventurous and uncontrollable Character by character 心(xīn)heart 猿(yuán)ape 意(yì)idea 马(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0