指手畫腳 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 指手画脚 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zhǐshǒuhuàjiǎo ㄓˇ ㄕㄡˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄠˇ 男 女 to gesticulate while talking (idiom) to explain by waving one's hands to criticize or give orders summarily Character by character 指(zhǐ)finger 手(shǒu)hand 畫(huà)draw 腳(jiǎo)foot 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