学舌

學舌
xuéshé
  1. to be prone to tell others what one hears; to spread hearsay
  2. to imitate other people's speech
  3. to mechanically repeat other people's words; to have no opinion of one's own and parrot what others say

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 学 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study
  3. to imitate
  4. science
  5. -ology
=2 舌 jī used in 喇舌 lǎjī to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
=2 舌 shé tongue

Containing this entry

调嘴学舌 tiáozuǐxuéshé to incite trouble between people (idiom)
鹦鹉学舌 yīngwǔxuéshé
  1. to parrot
  2. to repeat uncritically what sb says