直截了当
Traditional form:
直截了當
Pinyin (reading):
zhíjiéliǎodàng
Definitions:
- direct and plainspoken (idiom); blunt
- straightforward
Characters:
- 直 - straight, vertical; candid, direct, frank
- 截 - to cut off, to obstruct, to stop; segment; intersection
- 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action
- 当 - appropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound of bells
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