大惊小怪
dàjīngxiǎoguài
to make a fuss over nothing
Characters in this word
惊 jīng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 京 capital city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
小 xiǎo
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 小 — small, tiny, insignificant
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 只是一只小虫子，你别大惊小怪的。 Zhǐ shì yì zhī xiǎo chóngzi, nǐ bié dàjīngxiǎoguài de. It is only a little bug, so do not make a fuss.
- 不过是小事一桩，有什么好大惊小怪的？ Búguò shì xiǎoshì yì zhuāng, yǒu shénme hǎo dàjīngxiǎoguài de? It is just a small matter, so what is there to make a fuss about?
- 孩子摔了一跤，妈妈却大惊小怪地叫了起来。 Háizi shuāi le yì jiāo, māma què dàjīngxiǎoguài de jiào le qǐlái. The child took a small tumble, but the mother cried out in alarm over nothing.
Related words
- 不大 búdà not very, not much
- 大 dà big, large; older
- 大学 dàxué university
- 大学生 dàxuéshēng university student
- 大部分 dàbùfen most; the greater part
- 大大 dàdà greatly; much more
- 大多数 dàduōshù the majority; most
- 大海 dàhǎi sea; ocean
- 大家 dàjiā everyone
- 大量 dàliàng a large amount of
- 大门 dàmén main entrance; gate
- 大人 dàren adult