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信口开河

xìn kǒu kāi hé

4-character word Traditional 信口開河

What 信口开河 means

1. to speak without thinking (idiom)
2. to blurt sth out

The characters in 信口开河

• 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…
• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way

Sounds the same

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

• 信口开合variant of 信口开河