难以启齿 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 難以啟齒 nányǐqǐchǐ ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˇ ㄑㄧˇ ㄔˇ to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) to find it hard to speak about sth Character by character 难(nán)difficult 以(yǐ)use 启(qǐ)Qi son of Yu the Great 禹 yǔ, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 xiàcháo 齿(chǐ)tooth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0