打开话匣子

Traditional form:

打開話匣子

Pinyin (reading):

dǎkāihuàxiázi

Definitions:

• to start talking

Characters:

• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
• 匣 - case, coffer, small box
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing

Traditional characters:

• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 開 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 話 - talk, speech; language, dialect
• 匣 - case, coffer, small box
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing