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难以启齿
nán​yǐ​qǐ​chǐ

to find it hard to speak about something

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
难以启齿 難以啟齒 nán​yǐ​qǐ​chǐ
to find it hard to speak about something
to be too embarrassed or ashamed to mention something; to find it hard to speak one's mind

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.24 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.590 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)