Chinese symbol for “overreact”
洒狗血
sǎ gǒu xiě
Traditional: 灑狗血
to overreact; melodramatic
The closest CC-CEDICT match for overreact is 洒狗血 (sǎ gǒu xiě), defined as: to overreact; melodramatic.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 洒狗血.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 潇洒 (瀟灑) | xiāo sǎ | confident and at ease; free and easy |
| 洒脱 (灑脫) | sǎ tuo | free and at ease; natural; unconstrained |
| 喷洒 (噴灑) | pēn sǎ | to spray; to sprinkle |
| 挥洒 (揮灑) | huī sǎ | to sprinkle; to shed (tears, blood etc) |
| 洒水 (灑水) | sǎ shuǐ | to sprinkle |
| 洒落 (灑落) | sǎ luò | to fall downward in a scattered, lightly sprinkled manner (as light, petals, leaves etc); (literary) carefree and unrestrained; natural and |
| 狗狗 | gǒu gōu | (coll.) dog; doggie |
| 小狗 | xiǎo gǒu | pup; puppy |
| 血液 | xuè yè | blood; (fig.) lifeblood |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.