jué​shé

shrike's cry

  • created sense approved 鴃舌 · jué​shé · shrike's cry — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鴃舌

    jué​shé

    shrike's cry

    The cry or song of a shrike bird

    鴃 (literal) → 鴃 · jué · shrike 舌 (literal) → 舌 · shé · tongue

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

    created sense

  • created sense approved 鴃舌 · jué​shé · unintelligible speech — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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

    鴃 (literal) → 鴃 · jué · shrike 舌 (literal) → 舌 · shé · tongue

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

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