nán​yán

hard to say

  • created sense approved 难言/難言 · nán​yán · hard to say — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    难言 / 難言

    nán​yán

    hard to say

    (literary) hard to say clearly or difficult to talk about; feeling embarrassed or reluctant to mention something

    难 (literal) → 难/難 · nán · difficult 言 (literal) → 言 · yán · to say

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

    created sense