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钳口结舌
qián​kǒu​jié​shé

speechless with fear

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
钳口结舌 鉗口結舌 qián​kǒu​jié​shé
speechless with fear
to keep one's mouth shut and tongue tied; describes being unable or afraid to speak out

Frequency

Written text
0.002 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 钳口 qián​kǒu

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)