| 三 |
sān cùn bù làn zhī shé | to have a silver tongue / to have the gift of the gab |
| 三 |
Sān | surname San |
| 三 |
sān | three / 3 |
| 寸 |
cùn | a unit of length / inch / thumb |
| 不 |
bù | no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 烂 |
làn | soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad |
| 之 |
zhī | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 舌 |
jī | used in 喇舌 to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue" |
| 舌 |
shé | tongue |