橫挑鼻子豎挑眼 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 横挑鼻子竖挑眼 héngtiāobízishùtiāoyǎn ㄏㄥˊ ㄊㄧㄠ ㄅㄧˊ ˙ㄗ ㄕㄨˋ ㄊㄧㄠ ㄧㄢˇ to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) to criticize right and left Character by character 橫(héng)horizontal 挑(tiāo)carry on a shoulder pole 鼻(bí)nose 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" 豎(shù)erect 挑(tiāo)carry on a shoulder pole 眼(yǎn)eye A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0