晕晕乎乎

暈暈乎乎
yūnyūnhūhū
adjective #37,806

Meanings

  1. 1 dizzy; light-headed
  2. 2 muddled; in a daze; not thinking clearly

Examples

Wǒ gǎnmào le, zhěng tiān yūnyūnhūhū de.
I've got a cold and feel dizzy all day.
Tā gāng shuì xǐng, hái yūnyūnhūhū de.
He just woke up and is still groggy.

Tips

register
Colloquial reduplicated form, common in spoken Mandarin. Built from (yūnhū) by AABB reduplication, which softens it and adds a 'kind of, sort of' quality — you're not collapse-dizzy, just fuzzy-headed. Often follows a when used as a predicate.
mistakes
has two readings: yūn (dizzy, faint) and yùn (motion sickness, halo). In 晕晕乎乎 the meaning is 'dizzy/groggy', so use yūn. 晕车 (yùnchē, motion sick) uses yùn. Same character, different jobs.

Stroke Order

yūn