羞於啟齒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 羞于启齿 xiūyúqǐchǐ ㄒㄧㄡ ㄩˊ ㄑㄧˇ ㄔˇ to be too shy to speak one's mind (idiom) Character by character 羞(xiū)shy 於(yú)in 啟(qǐ)Qi son of Yu the Great 禹 yǔ, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 xiàcháo 齒(chǐ)tooth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0