察言观色 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 察言觀色 cháyánguānsè ㄔㄚˊ ㄧㄢˊ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄙㄜˋ to weigh up sb's words and observe their facial expression (idiom) to discern what sb thinks from his body language Character by character 察(chá)short name for Chahar Province 察哈尔 cháhāěr 言(yán)words 观(guān)look at 色(sè)color A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0