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指手划脚

zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo

4-character word Traditional 指手劃腳

What 指手划脚 means

1. variant of {指手画脚|zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo}

The characters in 指手划脚

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 划huàto delimit; to transfer; to assign
• 脚jiǎofoot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object)

Sounds the same

Read zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 指手画脚to gesticulate while talking (idiom); to explain by waving one's hands…