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くちがかたい

口が堅い

kuchigakatai

common

English

discreet, tight-lipped

नेपाली

गुप्त कुरा नफुकाउने

Examples

  1. 彼女かのじょは口くちが堅かたいので安心あんしんです。

    She's discreet, so you can trust her.

  2. 口くちが堅かたい人ひとでなければ、この仕事しごとは任まかせられません。

    I can only entrust this job to someone who's discreet.

  3. 個人こじん情報じょうほうを扱あつかう以上いじょう、口くちが堅かたいことが求もとめられます。

    Since you handle personal information, you're required to be discreet.

How to write it

Stroke order for each kanji — tap replay to watch again.

口 3 strokes
堅 12 strokes

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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