{"path":"/entry/18575","title":"口若悬河 / 口若懸河 (kǒu ruò xuán hé) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"口若悬河 / 口若懸河 (kǒu ruò xuán hé): mouth like a torrent (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":18575,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["口若悬河"],"TRADITIONAL":["口若懸河"]}},"phonetic":"kǒu ruò xuán hé","phoneticKey":"kou3 ruo4 xuan2 he2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"mouth like a torrent ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"eloquent","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"glib","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"voluble","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"have the gift of the gab","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":38350,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"mouth like a waterfall","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Considered an allusion from Shishuo Xinyu:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Then the four-character chengyu-like form first attested in Han Yu's poem:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Notes: 如 (rú) can always replace 若 (ruò), but nowadays the latter is more used in this.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"王太尉云：「郭子玄语议如悬河写水，注而不竭。」","traditional":"王太尉云：「郭子玄語議如懸河寫水，注而不竭。」"},"phonetic":"Wáng tàiwèi yún: “Guō Zǐxuán yǔyì rú xuánhé xiè shuǐ, zhù ér bù jié.”","english":"The grand marshal, Wang Yen, said, “When Kuo Hsiang converses, it's as if he were tilting the Yellow River to drain its waters; it pours and pours, but is never exhausted.”","ref":"Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE"},{"text":{"simplified":"安能以此上论列，愿借辩口如悬河。","traditional":"安能以此上論列，願借辯口如懸河。"},"phonetic":"Ānnéng yǐ cǐ shàng lùnliè, yuàn jiè biànkǒu rú xuánhé.","english":"How, then, could my above points be regained?\nFain would I loose my torrential eloquence (to bring these Stone Drums all into Imperial Academy).","ref":"811, Han Yu (韓愈),《石鼓歌》, translated by Lin Tongqi（林同奇）"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}