头痛欲裂 — Chinese idiom
头痛欲裂
tóu tòng yù liè
Traditional: 頭痛欲裂
Meaning
- to have a splitting headache
Character by character
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 痛tòngache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
- 欲yùdesire, want, longing, intent
- 裂lièto split, to rend; crevice, crack
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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