夸夸其谈
kuākuāqítán
to talk big; to make grandiose claims
Characters in this word
其 qí
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 八 — eight
谈 tán
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 炎 flame, blaze
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他只会夸夸其谈，从来不做具体的事。 Tā zhǐ huì kuākuā qítán, cónglái bú zuò jùtǐ de shì. He can only talk big and never does anything concrete.
- 开会时有人夸夸其谈，大家听得都累了。 Kāihuì shí yǒu rén kuākuā qítán, dàjiā tīng de dōu lèi le. At the meeting someone went on and on grandly, and everyone got tired of listening.
- 与其夸夸其谈，不如先把这件小事做好。 Yǔqí kuākuā qítán, bùrú xiān bǎ zhè jiàn xiǎoshì zuò hǎo. Rather than talk big, you had better do this small thing well first.
Related words
- 夸 kuā to boast, to praise
- 夸奖 kuājiǎng to praise
- 夸张 kuāzhāng exaggerated
- 夸大 kuādà to exaggerate; to overstate
- 夸耀 kuāyào to brag about; to show off
- 其他 qítā other; the rest
- 其中 qízhōng among them
- 其次 qícì next; secondly
- 其实 qíshí actually; in fact
- 极其 jíqí extremely
- 其余 qíyú the rest; remaining
- 其 qí its; their