掛齒

挂齿
guàchǐ
to mention (e.g. "don't mention it")

CEDICT

  1. (literary, usually in the negative in polite clichés) to mention
  2. to mention

Wiktionary

談論、提及。引申為放在心上。《儒林外史．第一一回》：「朋友原有通財之義，何足掛齒？」也作「挂口」、「挂齒」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 掛 guà
  1. to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc)
  2. to hang up (the phone)
  3. (of a line) to be dead
  4. to be worried; to be concerned
  5. (dialect) to make a phone call
  6. to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor)
  7. (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam)
  8. classifier for sets or clusters of objects
2 齒 chǐ tooth

classifier: 顆

Containing this entry

不足掛齒 bùzúguàchǐ not worth mentioning (idiom)
何足掛齒 hézúguàchǐ
無足掛齒 wúzúguàchǐ

Related entries

提到 tídào
  1. to mention
  2. to raise (a subject)
  3. to refer to
您的名字被提到了。

Your name was mentioned.

Source: Tatoeba

提及 tíjí
  1. to mention
  2. to raise (a subject)
  3. to bring to sb's attention
說起 shuōqǐ
  1. to mention
  2. to bring up (a subject)
  3. with regard to
  4. as for
那個男孩說起話來像個大人。

That boy talks as if he were a grown up.

Source: Tatoeba

談起 tánqǐ
  1. to mention
  2. to speak of
  3. to talk about
他們坐在公園的長椅上，談起了話來。

They sat on a park bench and began talking.

Source: Tatoeba

齒及 chǐjí
  1. to mention
  2. referring to
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