📖 Meaning
Describes someone who is extremely lively and joyful, bouncing and jumping with exuberant happiness. It conveys a state of irrepressible, energetic delight, often used for children or animals brimming with excitement.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom has no single definitive literary source; it arose from colloquial Chinese as a vivid descriptive phrase. It combines the characters for joy (欢), leaping (迸), recklessly or wildly (乱), and jumping (跳) to paint a picture of uncontainable exuberance. The closely related variant 欢蹦乱跳 is more commonly seen in modern writing, while 欢迸乱跳 appears as a less frequent alternate form with the same meaning.
💡 Example Usage
孩子们收到礼物后欢迸乱跳，开心得不得了。
After receiving their gifts, the children jumped around joyfully, beside themselves with happiness.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 欢迸乱跳
- Pinyin: huān bèng luàn tiào
- Literal Translation: joyfully, leap, wildly, jump
- Category: Emotion
- Characters: 4