灰头土脸
huī tóu tǔ liǎn
Pinyin

Definition

灰头土脸
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huī tóu tǔ liǎn
  1. head and face filthy with grime (idiom)
  2. covered in dirt
  3. dejected and depressed

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

土
Tǔ
  1. 1 Tu (ethnic group)
  2. 2 surname Tu
土地
tǔ dì
  1. 1 land
  2. 2 soil
  3. 3 territory
  4. 4 CL:片[piàn],塊|块[kuài]
土豆
tǔ dòu
  1. 1 potato
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
  3. 3 (Tw) peanut
  4. 4 CL:顆|颗[kē]
灰
huī
  1. 1 ash
  2. 2 dust
  3. 3 lime
  4. 4 gray
  5. 5 discouraged
  6. 6 dejected
灰色
huī sè
  1. 1 gray
  2. 2 ash gray
  3. 3 grizzly
  4. 4 pessimistic
  5. 5 gloomy
  6. 6 dispirited
  7. 7 ambiguous
入土
rù tǔ
  1. 1 to bury
  2. 2 buried
  3. 3 interred
出土
chū tǔ
  1. 1 to dig up
  2. 2 to appear in an excavation
  3. 3 unearthed
  4. 4 to come up out of the ground
动土
dòng tǔ
  1. 1 to break ground (prior to building sth)
  2. 2 to start building
卷土重来
juǎn tǔ chóng lái
  1. 1 lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to regroup and come back even stronger
  3. 3 to make a comeback
国土
guó tǔ
  1. 1 country's territory
  2. 2 national land
土人
tǔ rén
  1. 1 native
  2. 2 aborigine
  3. 3 clay figure
土包子
tǔ bāo zi
  1. 1 country bumpkin
  2. 2 boor
  3. 3 unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself)
  4. 4 burial mound
土匪
tǔ fěi
  1. 1 bandit
土司
tǔ sī
  1. 1 sliced bread (loanword from "toast")
  2. 2 government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
土壤
tǔ rǎng
  1. 1 soil
土家族
Tǔ jiā zú
  1. 1 Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
土方
tǔ fāng
  1. 1 cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement)
  2. 2 excavated soil
  3. 3 earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程[tǔ fāng gōng chéng])
  4. 4 (TCM) folk remedy
土星
Tǔ xīng
  1. 1 Saturn (planet)
土木
tǔ mù
  1. 1 building
  2. 2 construction
  3. 3 civil engineering
土楼
tǔ lóu
  1. 1 traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multi-story circular structure built around a central shrine

Idioms (20)

入土为安
rù tǔ wéi ān
  1. 1 buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
兵来将挡，水来土掩
bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
兵来将敌，水来土堰
bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
卷土重来
juǎn tǔ chóng lái
  1. 1 lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to regroup and come back even stronger
  3. 3 to make a comeback
土木形骸
tǔ mù xíng hái
  1. 1 earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
土洋结合
tǔ yáng jié hé
  1. 1 combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
土牛木马
tǔ niú mù mǎ
  1. 1 clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
  2. 2 worthless object
土豪劣绅
tǔ háo liè shēn
  1. 1 local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
土阶茅屋
tǔ jiē máo wū
  1. 1 lit. earthen steps and a small cottage
  2. 2 frugal living conditions (idiom)
土阶茅茨
tǔ jiē máo cí
  1. 1 lit. earthen steps and a thatched hut
  2. 2 frugal living conditions (idiom)
守土有责
shǒu tǔ yǒu zé
  1. 1 duty to defend the country (idiom)
寸土寸金
cùn tǔ cùn jīn
  1. 1 land is extremely expensive (in that area) (idiom)
挥金如土
huī jīn rú tǔ
  1. 1 lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to spend money like water
  3. 3 extravagant
死灰复燃
sǐ huī fù rán
  1. 1 lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence
  2. 2 sth malevolent returns to haunt one
灰不溜丢
huī bu liū diū
  1. 1 gloomy and dull (idiom)
  2. 2 boring and gray
  3. 3 unpleasantly murky
灰头土脸
huī tóu tǔ liǎn
  1. 1 head and face filthy with grime (idiom)
  2. 2 covered in dirt
  3. 3 dejected and depressed
灰飞烟灭
huī fēi yān miè
  1. 1 lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be annihilated
  3. 3 to vanish in a puff of smoke
皇天后土
huáng tiān hòu tǔ
  1. 1 heaven and earth (idiom)
积土成山
jī tǔ chéng shān
  1. 1 lit. piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. success is the cumulation of lots of small actions
万念俱灰
wàn niàn jù huī
  1. 1 every hope turns to dust (idiom); completely disheartened

Sample Sentences

那它可是跟对主人了。跟了我，只能灰头土脸的了。
nà tā kěshì gēn duì zhǔrén le 。gēn le wǒ ，zhǐnéng huītóutǔliǎn de le 。
That dog really has found the right owner. If it were mine, it would end up a depressing, dirty little thing.
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