只言片语 (只言片語)
zhǐ yán piàn yǔ
Pinyin

Definition

只言片语 (只言片語)
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zhǐ yán piàn yǔ
  1. just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

只
zhǐ
  1. 1 only
  2. 2 merely
  3. 3 just
  4. 4 but
只要
zhǐ yào
  1. 1 if only
  2. 2 so long as
图片
tú piàn
  1. 1 image
  2. 2 picture
  3. 3 photograph
  4. 4 classifier: 张 zhāng
照片
zhào piàn
  1. 1 photograph
  2. 2 picture
  3. 3 classifier: 张 zhāng
  4. 4 classifier: 套 tào
  5. 5 classifier: 幅 fú
片
piān
  1. 1 disk
  2. 2 sheet

Idioms (20)

一言一动
yī yán yī dòng
  1. 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
yī yán bù fā
  1. 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
一言以蔽之
yī yán yǐ bì zhī
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
  2. 2 in a nutshell