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潜台词
qián​tái​cí

subtext

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
潜台词 潛臺詞 qián​tái​cí
subtext
Unspoken dialogue in a play left for the audience to infer; (figuratively) the underlying meaning or implicit assertion behind someone's words.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.660 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.802 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)