傻虎虎

shǎhūhū

adjective

Meanings

1 naively cheerful
2 good-naturedly dim
3 simple and honest-hearted

Characters

(reduplicative suffix, normally hǔ)

(reduplicative suffix, normally hǔ)

Examples

他是个傻虎虎的小伙子，别人让他干啥他就干啥。

Tā shì gè shǎhūhū de xiǎohuǒzi, biérén ràng tā gàn shá tā jiù gàn shá.

He's a good-naturedly dim kid — whatever you tell him to do, he'll just do it.

别看他傻虎虎的，其实心里有数。

Bié kàn tā shǎhūhū de, qíshí xīn lǐ yǒushù.

Don't let that naive-tiger look fool you — he actually knows what's going on.

Tips

usage

Affectionate, not insulting. Captures a person (often a young man or child) who's simple-hearted and unguarded — the pinyin 虎 (tiger) here is just a sound-play, the image is of an overgrown cub who hasn't learned to be cunning.

Stroke Order

傻 shǎ

虎 hǔ