Characters
- 缄 (椷): (wooden) box; cup; old variant of 緘|缄[jian1]; letter
- 口 (口): mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- 不 (不): no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 言 (言): words; speech; to say; to talk
Resources
- Wiktionary: 缄口不言
- MDBG: 缄口不言
- Examples with 缄口不言 on Tatoeba
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