点头哈腰 — Chinese idiom
点头哈腰
diǎn tóu hā yāo
Traditional: 點頭哈腰
Meaning
- to nod one's head and bow ; bowing and scraping
- unctuous fawning
Character by character
- 点diǎndot, point, speck
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 哈hāthe sound of laughter
- 腰yāowaist, lower back; middle; pocket
Idioms sharing a character
- 指点江山 zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
- 文不加点 wén bù jiā diǎn
- 煽风点火 shān fēng diǎn huǒ
- 画龙点睛 huà lóng diǎn jīng
- 蜻蜓点水 qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ
- 装点门面 zhuāng diǎn mén miàn
- 点水不漏 diǎn shuǐ bù lòu
- 点睛之笔 diǎn jīng zhī bǐ
- 点石成金 diǎn shí chéng jīn
- 点金成铁 diǎn jīn chéng tiě
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