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守口如瓶
shǒu kǒu rú píng
What 守口如瓶 means
- lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped
- reticent
- not breathing a word
The characters in 守口如瓶
- 守shǒuto guard; to defend; to keep watch
- 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
- 如rúas; as if; such as
- 瓶píngbottle; vase; pitcher
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