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