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niàn to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])
舌头 shé tou tongue / CL:個|个[ge4] / enemy soldier captured for the purpose of extracting information
火辣辣 huǒ scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
口条 kǒu tiáo (ox etc) tongue (as food) / (dialect) elocution; articulation
五官 guān five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
舌尖 shé jiān tip of tongue / apical
母语 native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
油腔滑调 yóu qiāng huá diào flippant and insincere (piece of writing or speech) / glib-tongued / oily
绕口令 rào kǒu lìng tongue-twister
穿帮 chuān bāng (TV or movie) blooper / continuity error / (theater) to flub one's lines / unintended exposure of a body part / to be exposed (of a scheme or trick) / to reveal sth one intended to conceal through a slip of the tongue / to blow one's cover
住嘴 zhù zuǐ to hold one's tongue / Shut up!
油嘴 yóu zuǐ eloquent and cunning / silver tongued
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
shé tongue
舌根 shé gēn back of tongue / tongue root / dorsal
骂声 shēng scolding / tongue-lashing / (fig.) angry criticism / opprobrium / CL:片[pian4]
口干舌燥 kǒu gān shé zào lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
(interj. of admiration or of disgust) / to click one's tongue / to attempt to (find an opportunity to) speak
舌苔 shé tāi (TCM) coating on the tongue (examined for the purpose of diagnosis)
唇舌 chún shé argument / words / lips and tongue
失言 shī yán slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
火舌 huǒ shé tongue of flame
言不由衷 yán yóu zhōng to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different
慎言 shèn yán to speak cautiously / to guard one's tongue
鼓舌 shé to wag one's tongue / to speak glibly


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