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扬言

yáng yán

2-character word Traditional 揚言

What 扬言 means

1. to put about (a story, plan, threat etc)
2. to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)
3. to threaten

The characters in 扬言

• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 言yánwords; speech; to say

Example sentences

• 持枪男子扬言要杀死汤姆的狗。
  The man with the gun threatened to kill Tom's dog.

Sounds the same

Read yáng yán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 阳炎dazzling sunlight; glare of sunlight
• 佯言to claim falsely (literary)