饮恨吞声 — Chinese idiom
饮恨吞声
yǐn hèn tūn shēng
Traditional: 飲恨吞聲
Meaning
- to harbor a grudge with deep-seated hatred
Character by character
- 饮yǐnto swallow, to drink; a kind of drink
- 恨hènto dislike, to hate, to resent
- 吞tūnto absorb, to annex; to engulf; to swallow
- 声shēngsound, noise; voice, tone, music
Idioms sharing a character
- 一饮而尽 yī yǐn ér jìn
- 狂饮暴食 kuáng yǐn bào shí
- 饮水思源 yǐn shuǐ sī yuán
- 饮流怀源 yǐn liú huái yuán
- 饮鸩止渴 yǐn zhèn zhǐ kě
- 千古遗恨 qiān gǔ yí hèn
- 因爱成恨 yīn ài chéng hèn
- 报仇雪恨 bào chóu xuě hèn
- 恨之入骨 hèn zhī rù gǔ
- 恨海难填 hèn hǎi nán tián
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