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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
直言不讳
to speak bluntly (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to speak bluntly (idiom)
02
not to mince words
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 直言不讳 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 直言不讳 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 直言不讳.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 直言不讳.
Directly before
- 他直言不讳1
- 意见直言不讳1
Directly after
- 直言不讳了1
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 直言不讳
What does 直言不讳 mean in Chinese?
直言不讳 (zhíyánbùhuì) means to speak bluntly (idiom).
How do you pronounce 直言不讳?
直言不讳 is pronounced zhíyánbùhuì.
Is 直言不讳 an HSK word?
直言不讳 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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