一言难尽
yìyán-nánjìnTraditional 一言難盡
it's a long story
Every meaning
yīyán-nánjìn
- it's a long story
Its characters
- 一yīone
- 言yánwords; speech
- 难nándifficult; hard
- 尽jìnto exhaust; to use up
Words with 一
Words with 言
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.