木讷寡言 — Chinese idiom
木讷寡言
mù nè guǎ yán
Traditional: 木訥寡言
Meaning
- honest and unaffected but not talkative
Character by character
- 木mùtree; wood, lumber; wooden
- 讷nèinarticulate, slow; to mumble, to stammer
- 寡guǎwidowed; friendless, alone
- 言yánwords, speech; to speak, to say
Idioms sharing a character
- 一木难支 yī mù nán zhī
- 刚毅木讷 gāng yì mù nè
- 呆若木鸡 dāi ruò mù jī
- 土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái
- 土牛木马 tǔ niú mù mǎ
- 山颓木坏 shān tuí mù huài
- 木人石心 mù rén shí xīn
- 木已成舟 mù yǐ chéng zhōu
- 枯木逢春 kū mù féng chūn
- 榆木疙瘩 yú mù gē da
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