言不应点
yán​bù​yìng​diǎn

to break one's word

  • created sense approved 言不应点/言不應點 · yán​bù​yìng​diǎn · to break one's word — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    言不应点 / 言不應點

    yán​bù​yìng​diǎn

    to break one's word

    to fail to keep a promise or go back on what one said; to be untrustworthy in speech

    言 (literal) → 言 · yán · speech 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 应 (literal) → 应/應 · yìng · to answer 点 (literal) → 点/點 · diǎn · dot

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

    created sense