头昏眼暗 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• head spinning and eyes dark ; dizzy
• fainting
• vertigo

Character by character

• 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
• 昏hūndusk, nightfall, twilight, dark; to faint, to lose
• 眼yǎneyelet, hole, opening
• 暗àndark, gloomy; obscure; secret, covert

Idioms sharing a character

• 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
• 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
• 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
• 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
• 冤家对头 yuān jiā duì tóu
• 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
• 初露头角 chū lù tóu jiǎo
• 劈头盖脸 pī tóu gài liǎn
• 吴头楚尾 Wú tóu Chǔ wěi
• 品头论足 pǐn tóu lùn zú

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