口乾舌燥 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 口干舌燥 kǒugānshézào ㄎㄡˇ ㄍㄢ ㄕㄜˊ ㄗㄠˋ 男 女 lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom) to talk too much Character by character 口(kǒu)mouth 乾(gān)dry 舌(shé)tongue 燥(zào)dry Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0