Trouble issues from the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble.
trad. 禍從口出
Also written 禍從口出【huò cóng kǒu chū】
Characters in this word
4祸
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old variant of 禍|祸[huo4]
- Pinyin
- huò
- Traditional
- 旤
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 12906 of 2500
从
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variant of 從|从[cong2]
- Pinyin
- cóng
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 115 of 2500
口
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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
出
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to go out; to come out, to arise; to occur, to produce; to yield, to go beyond; to exceed, (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result), classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- Pinyin
- chū
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 328 of 2500