Read Edit View history 食言 shíyán renege Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 食言 shíyán renege noun to break one's promise 他向来守信，绝不会食言。 tā xiànglái shǒuxìn, jué bù huì shíyán. He has always been a man of his word and would never break a promise. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.83 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.907 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
食言 shíyán renege noun to break one's promise 他向来守信，绝不会食言。 tā xiànglái shǒuxìn, jué bù huì shíyán. He has always been a man of his word and would never break a promise. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.83 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.907 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)