三缄其口 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 三緘其口 sānjiānqíkǒu ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˊ ㄎㄡˇ 男 女 reluctant to speak about it idiom tight-lipped Character by character 三(sān)surname San 缄(jiān)box 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