抓耳挠腮 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 抓耳撓腮 zhuāěrnáosāi ㄓㄨㄚ ㄦˇ ㄋㄠˊ ㄙㄞ to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom) Character by character 抓(zhuā)grab 耳(ěr)ear 挠(náo)scratch 腮(sāi)cheek A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0