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三缄其口
sān​jiān​qí​kǒu

tight-lipped

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
三缄其口 (三緘其口) sān​jiān​qí​kǒu
tight-lipped idiom
To remain silent or extremely cautious about speaking; to keep one's mouth shut, often out of caution or prudence.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.696 per million

Sources

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