dumbstruck and unable to reply (idiom); left speechless; at a loss for words
trad. 啞口無言
Also written 啞口無言【yǎ kǒu wú yán】
Characters in this word
4哑
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(onom.) sound of cawing, sound of infant learning to talk, variant of 呀[ya1]
- Pinyin
- yā
- Traditional
- 啞
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 20803 of 2500
口
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
mouth, classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc), classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- Pinyin
- kǒu
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 4127 of 2500
无
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- Pinyin
- mó
- Traditional
- 無
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1404 of 2500
言
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
words, speech, to say, to talk
- Pinyin
- yán
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 6821 of 2500