惊慌失色 — Chinese idiom
惊慌失色
jīng huāng shī sè
Traditional: 驚慌失色
Meaning
- to go pale in panic
Character by character
- 惊jīngto frighten, to startle; surprise, alarm
- 慌huāngfrantic, nervous, panicked
- 失shīto lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
- 色sècolor, tint, hue, shade; beauty, form; sex
Idioms sharing a character
- 一夕数惊 yī xī shù jīng
- 一鸣惊人 yī míng jīng rén
- 大吃一惊 dà chī yī jīng
- 大惊失色 dà jīng shī sè
- 大惊小怪 dà jīng xiǎo guài
- 心惊肉跳 xīn jīng ròu tiào
- 心惊胆战 xīn jīng dǎn zhàn
- 怵目惊心 chù mù jīng xīn
- 打草惊蛇 dǎ cǎo jīng shé
- 拍案惊奇 pāi àn jīng qí
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.