头昏脑涨

頭昏腦漲
tóuhūn-nǎozhàng
idiom #65,254

Meanings

  1. 1 dizzy and groggy
  2. 2 with a swimming, swollen head
  3. 3 muddled and overwhelmed

Examples

Tā liánxù jiābān sān tiān, tóuhūnnǎozhàng.
He worked overtime for three days straight and felt completely groggy.
Wǒ nòng de tóuhūnnǎozhàng.
All those numbers made me dizzy.
Áo le yī yè, tā tóuhūnnǎozhàng de qù shàngbān.
After a sleepless night, she went to work feeling totally muddled.

Tips

usage
The is read zhàng (the 'swollen' reading), not zhǎng. A common variant form is 头昏脑胀 — same pinyin, in place of . Both forms are interchangeable in modern use.
mistakes
Don't read the here as zhǎng. The zhǎng reading is for things going up (prices, water levels); the zhàng reading is for things swelling outward (a head, a belly).

Stroke Order

tóu
hūn
nǎo
zhǎng