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一声不吭

yī shēng bù kēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一聲不吭

一声不吭 (yī shēng bù kēng) means "to not say a word". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一声不吭 means

1. to not say a word

The characters in 一声不吭

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 声shēngsound; voice; tone
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 吭kēngto utter

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