Don't beat around the bush.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
拐弯抹角
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
02
fig. to speak in a roundabout way
03
to equivocate
04
to beat about the bush
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 拐弯抹角 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 拐弯抹角 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 拐弯抹角.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 拐弯抹角.
Directly before
- 不要拐弯抹角1
- 不会拐弯抹角1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 拐弯抹角
What does 拐弯抹角 mean in Chinese?
拐弯抹角 (guǎiwānmòjiǎo) means lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom).
How do you pronounce 拐弯抹角?
拐弯抹角 is pronounced guǎiwānmòjiǎo.
Is 拐弯抹角 an HSK word?
拐弯抹角 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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