食言 shíyán renege Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 食言 shíyán renege noun to break one's promise 他向来守信，绝不会食言。 tā xiànglái shǒuxìn, jué bù huì shíyán. He has always been a man of his word and would never break a promise. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.83 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.907 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
食言 shíyán renege noun to break one's promise 他向来守信，绝不会食言。 tā xiànglái shǒuxìn, jué bù huì shíyán. He has always been a man of his word and would never break a promise. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.83 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.907 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
