半吐半吞
bàn​tǔ​bàn​tūn

to speak hesitatingly

  • created sense approved 半吐半吞 · bàn​tǔ​bàn​tūn · to speak hesitatingly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半吐半吞

    bàn​tǔ​bàn​tūn

    to speak hesitatingly

    to say only a part and leave the rest unsaid, as if swallowing back one's words; to be evasive or hesitant in speech

    半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · partly 吐 (literal) → 吐 · tǔ · to say 半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · partly 吞 (literal) → 吞 · tūn · to swallow

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense