Read Edit View history 直言 zhíyán speak frankly Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 直言 zhíyán speak frankly verb to speak one's mind directly or bluntly without hesitation 我就直言了，这个方案根本行不通。 wǒ jiù zhíyán le, zhègè fāng'àn gēnběn xíng bù tōng. I'll be blunt: this plan simply won't work. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.14 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 4.21 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
直言 zhíyán speak frankly verb to speak one's mind directly or bluntly without hesitation 我就直言了，这个方案根本行不通。 wǒ jiù zhíyán le, zhègè fāng'àn gēnběn xíng bù tōng. I'll be blunt: this plan simply won't work. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.14 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 4.21 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)