无言 (無言)
wú yán
Pinyin

Definition

无言 (無言)
 - 
wú yán
  1. to remain silent
  2. to have nothing to say

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

他被我说得哑口无言。
tā bèi wǒ shuōde yǎkǒuwúyán 。
My words made him speechless.
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哑口无言
yǎkǒuwúyán
speechless
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对不合理的请求，我们无言以对。
duì bù hélǐ de qǐngqiú ，wǒmen wúyányǐduì 。
To those unreasonable requests, we are not willing to say anything.
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无言以对
wúyányǐduì
have nothing to say
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