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察言观色
chá​yán​guān​sè

read people

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
察言观色 (察言觀色) chá​yán​guān​sè
read people idiom
to weigh up someone's words and observe their facial expressions or body language to discern their thoughts or feelings.

Frequency

Written text
0.510 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)