怒发冲冠 — Chinese idiom
怒发冲冠
nù fà chōng guān
Traditional: 怒髮衝冠
Meaning
- lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat
- fig. seething in anger
- raise one's hackles
Character by character
- 怒nùanger, passion, rage
- 发fàto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
- 冲chōngwash, rinse, flush; dash; soar
- 冠guāncap, crown, headgear
Idioms sharing a character
- 不怒而威 bù nù ér wēi
- 勃然大怒 bó rán dà nù
- 喜怒哀乐 xǐ nù āi lè
- 嬉笑怒骂 xī xiào nù mà
- 心花怒放 xīn huā nù fàng
- 怒不可遏 nù bù kě è
- 怒形于色 nù xíng yú sè
- 怒气冲冲 nù qì chōng chōng
- 怒目相向 nù mù xiāng xiàng
- 怒目而视 nù mù ér shì
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