诺言 (諾言)
nuò yán
Pinyin

Definition

诺言 (諾言)
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nuò yán
  1. promise

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

liú yán
  1. 1 to leave a message
  2. 2 to leave one's comments
  3. 3 message
zhēn yán
  1. 1 admonition
  2. 2 exhortation
  3. 3 dictum
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
yán
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 to say
  4. 4 to talk
yán yǔ
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 (spoken) language
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

谁也擦不掉我们许下的诺言。
shéi yě cā bùdiào wǒmen xǔxià de nuòyán 。
No one can erase the promises we’ve made
公主答应了青蛙。但是她心里却想:“哼,你这只丑陋的青蛙吹什么牛啊!”可是没想到,青蛙真的找到了小金球。这下公主着急了。她不想履行自己的诺言,于是飞快地跑回王宫。
gōngzhǔ dāying le qīngwā 。dànshì tā xīnli què xiǎng :“hèng ,nǐ zhè zhī chǒulòu de qīngwā chuī shénme niú a !”kěshì méixiǎngdào ,qīngwā zhēnde zhǎodào le xiǎo jīnqiú 。zhèxià gōngzhǔ zháojí le 。tā bù xiǎng lǚxíng zìjǐ de nuòyán ,yúshì fēikuài de pǎo huí wánggōng 。
The princess promised she would, but in her heart she thought, “Hah! You ugly frog. You're only boasting!” She never thought that the frog really would find the small golden ball. After he did, she became nervous. She didn't want to keep the promise she had made and she ran back to the castle as fast as she could.
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