to have a silver tongue; to have the gift of the gab
trad. 三寸不爛之舌
Also written 三寸不爛之舌【sān cùn bù làn zhī shé】
Characters in this word
6三
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surname San
- Pinyin
- Sān
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 849 of 2500
寸
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a unit of length, inch, thumb
- Pinyin
- cùn
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 15323 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
烂
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soft; mushy, well-cooked and soft, to rot; to decompose, rotten, worn out, chaotic; messy, utterly; thoroughly, crappy; bad
- Pinyin
- làn
- Traditional
- 爛
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2878 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
舌
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used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
- Pinyin
- jī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 21477 of 2500