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一言难尽
yī yán nán jìn
What 一言难尽 means
- hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
The characters in 一言难尽
- 一yīone; single; a (article)
- 言yánwords; speech; to say
- 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
- 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end
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