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口干舌燥

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4-character word Traditional 口乾舌燥

What 口干舌燥 means

1. lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

The characters in 口干舌燥

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 舌shétongue
• 燥zàodry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. sào) minced meat