一言難盡 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 一言难尽 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 難(nán)difficult 盡(jìn)use up A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0