astringent / tart / acerbity / unsmooth / rough (surface) / hard to understand / obscure
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Exact character matches appear first. For otherwise comparable matches, frequency in film and television subtitles helps determine order. Direct English-definition matches and prefix matches also affect ranking. Word length and the availability of usage notes do not improve rank.
Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
shy / bashful
difficult to understand / cryptic
to taste astringent
acerbic (taste) / astringent
sluggish pulse
dry and rough (skin) / hoarse (voice) / dry and heavy (style)
cold and sluggish / chilly
to be embarrassingly short of money
clumsy and incomprehensible / botched writing
unripe / tart / not fully proficient / somewhat shaky
to remove astringent taste
abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)
clumsy in speech / tongue tied
awkward / lame / difficulty (esp. in moving) / not smooth
sour / acrid / (fig.) bitter / painful
underripe / (fig.) young and inexperienced
salty and bitter / acerbic
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27