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鴃舌
jué​shé

shrike's cry

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Senses

鴃舌 jué​shé shrike's cry

The cry or song of a shrike bird

鴃舌 jué​shé unintelligible speech

A metaphor for foreign languages or dialects that are difficult to understand, originally used disparagingly for southern non-Chinese languages

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