yì​li​yì​sī

to hesitate

  • created sense approved 意里意思/意裡意思 · yì​li​yì​sī · to hesitate — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    意里意思 / 意裡意思

    yì​li​yì​sī

    to hesitate

    (dialect) to be hesitant or speak indistinctly when one is unwilling or unable to state their true meaning clearly

    意 (literal) → 意 · yì · meaning 里 (bound) → 里/裡 · li · [infix] 意思 (literal) → 意思 · yì​si · meaning

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

    created sense