愁眉苦脸 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 愁眉苦臉 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. chóuméikǔliǎn ㄔㄡˊ ㄇㄟˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄌㄧㄢˇ to look anxious (idiom) to look miserable Character by character 愁(chóu)worry about 眉(méi)eyebrow 苦(kǔ)bitter 脸(liǎn)face 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