一言难尽 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 一言難盡 yīyánnánjìn ㄧ ㄧㄢˊ ㄋㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄣˋ hard to explain in a few words (idiom) complicated and not easy to express succinctly Character by character 一(yī)one 言(yán)words 难(nán)difficult 尽(jìn)use up A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0