比手畫腳
简 比手画脚 · 繁 比手畫腳Meanings
- variant of 比手劃腳 bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
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3–3–4–3 · bi3 shou3 hua4 jiao3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bei2 sau2 waak6 goek3
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- (idiomatic) to use movement of either the hands or of some other body limb in order to supplement that which can not be expressed in words; to use sign language; to communicate by using hand gestures
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