打開天窗說亮話
简 打开天窗说亮话 · 繁 打開天窗說亮話Meanings
- (let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush
Characters in this entry
- 打
- dǎ · strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
- 開
- kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
- 天
- tiān · sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 窗
- chuāng · window
- 說
- shuō · speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
- 亮
- liàng · bright, brilliant, radiant, light
- 話
- huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
- 开
- kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
- 说
- shuō · speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
- 话
- huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
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Mandarin tones
3–1–1–1–1–4–4 · da3 kai1 tian1 chuang1 shuo1 liang4 hua4
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daa2 hoi1 tin1 coeng1 syut3 loeng6 waa6
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phrase
- (figurative) to speak candidly; to not beat around the bush
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