扬言 (揚言)
yáng yán
Pinyin

Definition

扬言 (揚言)
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yáng yán
  1. to put about (a story, plan, threat etc)
  2. to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)
  3. to threaten

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

留言
liú yán
  1. 1 to leave a message
  2. 2 to leave one's comments
  3. 3 message
箴言
zhēn yán
  1. 1 admonition
  2. 2 exhortation
  3. 3 dictum
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
言
yán
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 to say
  4. 4 to talk
言语
yán yǔ
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 (spoken) language
语言
yǔ yán
  1. 1 language
  2. 2 classifier: 门 mén
  3. 3 classifier: 种 zhǒng

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

Sample Sentences

你还敢提驾照，是谁在我准备学车的时候扬言说，我要是能学会开车他就倒着走的？
nǐ hái gǎn tí jiàzhào ，shì shéi zài wǒ zhǔnbèi xué chē de shíhou yángyán shuō ，wǒ yàoshi néng xuéhuì kāichē tā jiù dào zhe zǒu de ？
You dare to mention the driver's license. When I was preparing to learn to drive, who was it that said if I could learn to drive, he would go backwards?
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很气愤，并扬言要杀了那对狗男女。
hěn qìfèn ，bìng yángyán yào shā le nà duì gǒunánnǚ 。
She was furious. She also threatened to 'kill that pair of cheating dogs'.
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