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
鹦鹉学舌
yīng​wǔ​xué​shé

to parrot

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
鹦鹉学舌 鸚鵡學舌 yīng​wǔ​xué​shé
to parrot
To repeat uncritically what others say without having any independent opinion or understanding; to echo others blindly.

Frequency

Written text
0.089 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 人云亦云 rén​yún​yì​yún
  • 拾人牙慧 shí​rén​yá​huì

Sources

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