三緘其口 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 三缄其口 sānjiānqíkǒu ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˊ ㄎㄡˇ reluctant to speak about it idiom tight-lipped Character by character 三(sān)surname San 緘(jiān)letters 其(qí)his 口(kǒu)mouth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0