字 Chinese Character Wiki Wiki
Log in
  • Home
  • Search
  • Articles
  • Lists
  • Recent Changes
  • My Edits
  • Character Builder
Preferences
Theme
Characters
Phonetic
  • Dong Chinese
Read Edit View history
难以启齿
nán​yǐ​qǐ​chǐ

to find it hard to speak about something

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
难以启齿 難以啟齒 nán​yǐ​qǐ​chǐ
to find it hard to speak about something
to be too embarrassed or ashamed to mention something; to find it hard to speak one's mind

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.24 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.590 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
CC BY-SA 4.0 Data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0