to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth
trad. 難以啟齒
Also written 難以啟齒【nán yǐ qǐ chǐ】
Characters in this word
4难
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
以
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
启
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
variant of 啟|启[qi3]
- Pinyin
- qǐ
- Traditional
- 唘
- Strokes
- 7
齿
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(bound form) tooth, (bound form) to regard as worthy of mention
- Pinyin
- chǐ
- Traditional
- 齒
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 34501 of 2500