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支支吾吾
zhī​zhī​wú​wú

hem and haw

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
支支吾吾 zhī​zhī​wú​wú
hem and haw descriptive
to speak evasively or use vague language to avoid answering directly or to stall for time

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.749 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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