咬牙 yǎoyá to make a hard decision Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 咬牙 yǎo//yá to make a hard decision verb + noun To steel oneself or make a painful resolution to persevere through difficulty 他一咬牙，终于做出了决定。 tā yī yǎo yá, zhōngyú zuò chū le juédìng. Gritting his teeth, he finally made his decision. to clench one's teeth verb To clench or gnash the teeth due to extreme anger or the endurance of great pain to grind one's teeth To grind one's teeth involuntarily while asleep. shrewd (Literary or dialect) To be overly shrewd, calculating, or difficult to deal with. unyielding To be strict or refuse to loosen one's grip; to hold fast to a demand Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.510 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 4.72 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
咬牙 yǎo//yá to make a hard decision verb + noun To steel oneself or make a painful resolution to persevere through difficulty 他一咬牙，终于做出了决定。 tā yī yǎo yá, zhōngyú zuò chū le juédìng. Gritting his teeth, he finally made his decision. to clench one's teeth verb To clench or gnash the teeth due to extreme anger or the endurance of great pain to grind one's teeth To grind one's teeth involuntarily while asleep. shrewd (Literary or dialect) To be overly shrewd, calculating, or difficult to deal with. unyielding To be strict or refuse to loosen one's grip; to hold fast to a demand Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.510 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 4.72 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
