难言之隐
nán​yán​zhī​yǐn

painful secret

  • created sense approved 难言之隐/難言之隱 · nán​yán​zhī​yǐn · painful secret — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    难言之隐 / 難言之隱

    nán​yán​zhī​yǐn

    painful secret

    something too embarrassing or painful to talk about; a hidden trouble; an embarrassing illness

    难言 (literal) → 难言/難言 · nán​yán · hard to say 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 隐 (bound) → 隐/隱 · yǐn · secret

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

    created sense