神魂颠倒

神魂顛倒
shénhún-diāndǎo
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 infatuated; head over heels
  2. 2 to lose one's head

Examples

HSK 5
Tā bèi nàge nǚhái mí de shénhún-diāndǎo.
He's completely head over heels for that girl.
HSK 6
Nà nián tā chǎogǔ chǎo de shénhún-diāndǎo, lián fàn dōu gùbushàng chī.
That year he was so caught up in the stock market that he lost his head and barely remembered to eat.

Tips

usage
Usually after a verb and 得, as in 迷得神魂颠倒 "so smitten one loses one's head". Unlike 如痴如醉, happy absorption in music or a book, it hints that judgment has gone.

Stroke Order

神 shén
魂 hún
颠 diān
倒 dǎo