虚头巴脑 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 虛頭巴腦 xūtóubānǎo ㄒㄩ ㄊㄡˊ ㄅㄚ ㄋㄠˇ all show and no substance coll. Character by character 虚(xū)emptiness 头(tóu)head 巴(bā)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty 脑(nǎo)brain A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0