質言

Chinese

		hostage; substance; nature hostage; substance; nature; quality	to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word
trad. (質言)		質	言
simp. (质言)		质	言

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhìyán, zhíyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ ㄧㄢˊ, ㄓˊ ㄧㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhìyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˋ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhìhyán
    • Wade–Giles: chih⁴-yen²
    • Yale: jr̀-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyhyan
    • Palladius: чжиянь (čžijanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹ jɛn³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhíyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíhyán
    • Wade–Giles: chih²-yen²
    • Yale: jŕ-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyryan
    • Palladius: чжиянь (čžijanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ jɛn³⁵/

Verb

質言

1. (literary) to speak plainly; to tell the truth

   • 全國未統一，帝國主義軍閥勢力未推翻，農民對政府稅捐的繁重負擔，質言之，即革命軍的軍費負擔，還是沒有法子解除的。 [MSC, trad.]
     全国未统一，帝国主义军阀势力未推翻，农民对政府税捐的繁重负担，质言之，即革命军的军费负担，还是没有法子解除的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Quánguó wèi tǒngyī, dìguózhǔyì jūnfá shìlì wèi tuīfān, nóngmín duì zhèngfǔ shuìjuān de fánzhòng fùdān, zhìyán zhī, jí gémìngjūn de jūnfèi fùdān, háishì méiyǒu fǎzi jiěchú de. [Pinyin]

     As the country is not yet unifies and the authority of the imperialists and the warlords has not been overthrown, there is as yet no way of removing the heavy burden of government taxes and levies on the peasants or, more explicitly, of removing the burden of expenditure for the revolutionary army.

Noun

質言

1. (literary) plain words; truthful words