言不由中
yán​bù​yóu​zhōng

to speak insincerely

  • created sense approved 言不由中 · yán​bù​yóu​zhōng · to speak insincerely — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    言不由中

    yán​bù​yóu​zhōng

    to speak insincerely

    (variant form) to say what one does not mean; for words not to come from the heart

    言 (literal) → 言 · yán · speech 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 由 (literal) → 由 · yóu · from 中 (literal) → 中 · zhōng · middle

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

    created sense