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一言难尽
yī​yán​nán​jìn

hard to explain

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
一言难尽 (一言難盡) yī​yán​nán​jìn
hard to explain idiom
Hard to explain in a few words; complicated and not easy to express succinctly.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.483 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)