一言不发 yīyánbùfā HSK7 to not say a word Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 一言不发 一言不發 yīyánbùfā to not say a word verbadjective not utter a single sentence; to remain completely silent 你一路上几乎一言不发。 nǐ yīlùshang jīhū yīyánbùfā. You hardly said a word the whole way. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.73 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.50 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
一言不发 一言不發 yīyánbùfā to not say a word verbadjective not utter a single sentence; to remain completely silent 你一路上几乎一言不发。 nǐ yīlùshang jīhū yīyánbùfā. You hardly said a word the whole way. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.73 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 2.50 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)