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欲言又止
yù​yán​yòu​zhǐ

to hold one's tongue

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
欲言又止 yù​yán​yòu​zhǐ
to hold one's tongue
to start to say something but then hesitate and stop; to swallow one's words

Frequency

Written text
1.33 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 半吐半吞 bàn​tǔ​bàn​tūn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)