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信口开合

xìn kǒu kāi hé

4-character word Traditional 信口開合

What 信口开合 means

1. variant of {信口开河|xìn kǒu kāi hé}

The characters in 信口开合

• 信xìnletter; mail; to trust
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 合héto close; to join; to fit

Sounds the same

Read xìn kǒu kāi hé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 信口开河to speak without thinking (idiom); to blurt sth out