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手舞足蹈
Mandarin · pinyin shǒu wǔ zú dǎo
Meanings
- lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom)
- fig. to dance about
- to express one's feelings in body language
- to gesture animatedly
- (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs
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3–3–2–3 · shou3 wu3 zu2 dao3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sau2 mou5 zuk1 dou6
Cantonese word readings for 手舞足蹈. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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sau2 mou5 zuk1 dou6
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- (idiomatic) dancing and gesticulating for joy
- (traditional Chinese medicine) involuntary movements of the limbs; convulsions, hemiballismus, chorea, athetosis or myoclonus
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