顰めっ面

Japanese

Kanji in this term
顰	面
しか Hyōgaiji	つら Grade: 3
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 顰めっ面 – see the following entry.

【しかめっ面つら】 [noun] grimace - a distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

(This term, 顰めっ面, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)