置喙

zhìhuì
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to offer an opinion
  2. 2 to comment
  3. 3 to have a say (often used in the negative)

Examples

Zhè shì tāmen jiā de shì, wàirén bùbiàn zhìhuì.
This is their family's business; outsiders shouldn't comment.
Duìyú gōngsī zhànlüè, tā wúquán zhìhuì.
He has no right to weigh in on company strategy.

Tips

register
Formal/literary. Almost always appears in the negative (不便置喙 'not appropriate to comment', 无从置喙 'no grounds to comment', 无权置喙 'no right to comment') as a polite way of saying 'not my place to speak'.
memory
(huì) is the beak of a bird. 置喙 literally means 'to insert one's beak' — like the English idiom 'to stick one's beak in.'

Stroke Order

zhì
huì