空口说白话
kōng kǒu shuō bái huà
Pinyin

Definition

空口说白话
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kōng kǒu shuō bái huà
  1. to make empty promises

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人口
rén kǒu
  1. 1 population
  2. 2 people
借口
jiè kǒu
  1. 1 to use as an excuse
  2. 2 on the pretext
  3. 3 excuse
  4. 4 pretext
伤口
shāng kǒu
  1. 1 wound
  2. 2 cut
入口
rù kǒu
  1. 1 entrance
  2. 2 to import
出口
chū kǒu
  1. 1 an exit
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
  3. 3 to speak
  4. 4 to export
  5. 5 (of a ship) to leave port
口
kǒu
  1. 1 mouth
  2. 2 classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
  3. 3 classifier for bites or mouthfuls
口味
kǒu wèi
  1. 1 a person's preferences
  2. 2 tastes (in food)
  3. 3 flavor
天空
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
明白
míng bai
  1. 1 clear
  2. 2 obvious
  3. 3 unequivocal
  4. 4 to understand
  5. 5 to realize
有空
yǒu kòng
  1. 1 to have time (to do sth)
白
Bái
  1. 1 surname Bai
白天
bái tiān
  1. 1 daytime
  2. 2 during the day
  3. 3 day
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
白羊座
Bái yáng zuò
  1. 1 Aries (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
白色
bái sè
  1. 1 white
  2. 2 fig. reactionary
  3. 3 anti-communist
空
kōng
  1. 1 empty
  2. 2 air
  3. 3 sky
  4. 4 in vain
空气
kōng qì
  1. 1 air
  2. 2 atmosphere
空间
kōng jiān
  1. 1 space
  2. 2 room
  3. 3 (fig.) scope
  4. 4 leeway
  5. 5 (astronomy) outer space
  6. 6 (physics, math.) space
胃口
wèi kǒu
  1. 1 appetite
  2. 2 liking
表白
biǎo bái
  1. 1 to explain oneself
  2. 2 to express
  3. 3 to reveal one's thoughts or feelings
  4. 4 declaration
  5. 5 confession
门口
mén kǒu
  1. 1 doorway
  2. 2 gate
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]

Idioms (20)

一清二白
yī qīng èr bái
  1. 1 perfectly clean
  2. 2 blameless
  3. 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
一纸空文
yī zhǐ kōng wén
  1. 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
三缄其口
sān jiān qí kǒu
  1. 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
  2. 2 tight-lipped
不分皂白
bù fēn zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
不分青红皂白
bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
不问青红皂白
bù wèn qīng hóng zào bái
  1. 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
  2. 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
不蒸馒头争口气
bù zhēng mán tou zhēng kǒu qì
  1. 1 not to be crushed (idiom)
  2. 2 to be determined to have one's revenge
交口称誉
jiāo kǒu chēng yù
  1. 1 voices unanimous in praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
以免借口
yǐ miǎn jiè kǒu
  1. 1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)
佛口蛇心
fó kǒu shé xīn
  1. 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
  2. 2 malicious and duplicitous
俗谚口碑
sú yàn kǒu bēi
  1. 1 common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs
信口开河
xìn kǒu kāi hé
  1. 1 to speak without thinking (idiom)
  2. 2 to blurt sth out
俨如白昼
yǎn rú bái zhòu
  1. 1 as bright as daylight (idiom)
两手空空
liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
  1. 1 empty-handed (idiom); fig. not receiving anything
出口成章
chū kǒu chéng zhāng
  1. 1 (idiom) (of one's speech) eloquent
  2. 2 articulate
劈空扳害
pī kōng bān hài
  1. 1 damaged by groundless slander (idiom)
口干舌燥
kǒu gān shé zào
  1. 1 lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
口口声声
kǒu kou shēng shēng
  1. 1 to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again
口吐毒焰
kǒu tǔ dú yàn
  1. 1 lit. a mouth spitting with poisonous flames
  2. 2 to speak angrily to sb (idiom)

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