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一言千金

yī yán qiān jīn

4-character word

What 一言千金 means

1. one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice
2. words of enormous weight

The characters in 一言千金

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 言yánwords; speech; to say
• 千qiānthousand
• 金jīngold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals

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