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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「隻字不提」, explained here.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「隻字不提」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Only: one. Not a word about it. A metaphor for something that is intentionally left unsaid.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī zì bù tí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jek3 ji6 bat1 tai4

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.