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婉言
wǎn​yán

tactful words

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
婉言 wǎn​yán
tactful words adverb
gentle, diplomatic, or indirect language used to avoid giving offense; euphemism

我婉言谢绝了他们的邀请。

wǒ wǎn​yán xiè​jué le tā​men de yāo​qǐng.

I politely refused their invitation.

Frequency

Written text
0.495 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)