启齿 (啟齒) qǐchǐ

  1. qǐchǐ verb to bring up a subject; to start talking
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '啟齒'; Guoyu '啟齒' v 2; Mathews 1931 '啟齒', p. 71)
  2. qǐchǐ verb to smile
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '啟齒' v 1)

Also contained in

难以启齿羞于启齿

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 8 Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載 — count: 1
  • Scroll 13 Biographies of Eminent Monks 高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 San Guo Yi Shi 三國遺事 — count: 1
  • Scroll 6 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 28 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 1
  • Scroll 9 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 1 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 酬启齿 (酬啟齒) 聊酬啟齒 — Fo Zu Lidai Tong Zai 佛祖歷代通載, Scroll 8 — count: 2