{"path":"/entry/54581","title":"期期艾艾 (qī qī ài ài) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"期期艾艾 (qī qī ài ài): stammering (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":54581,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["期期艾艾"],"TRADITIONAL":["期期艾艾"]}},"phonetic":"qī qī ài ài","phoneticKey":"qi1 qi1 ai4 ai4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"stammering ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":84079,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["结巴"],"TRADITIONAL":["結巴"]}},"phonetic":"jiē ba","gloss":{"simplified":"to stutter","traditional":null}},{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":18501,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["口吃"],"TRADITIONAL":["口吃"]}},"phonetic":"kǒu chī","gloss":{"simplified":"to stammer","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"昌为人口吃，又盛怒，曰：“臣口不能言，然臣，期期知其不可。”","traditional":"昌為人口吃，又盛怒，曰：“臣口不能言，然臣，期期知其不可。”"},"phonetic":"Chāng wéirén kǒuchī, yòu shèngnù, yuē: “Chén kǒu bù néngyán, rán chén, qīqī zhī qí bùkě.”","english":"Chou Ch'ang stuttered by nature,\nand on top of this he was at the time overwhelmed with anger. “I cannot get the words out of my mouth,” he replied. “But all the same I know it will n-n-never do!”","ref":"The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE"},{"text":{"simplified":"邓艾口吃，语称艾艾。","traditional":"鄧艾口吃，語稱艾艾。"},"phonetic":"Dèng Ài kǒuchī, yǔ chēng Ài Ài.","english":"Because Deng Ai suffered from stuttering, every time he tried to speak, he would start with \"I, I\"...","ref":"Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5ᵗʰ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}