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Trad. 話
- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
Trad. 詞話
- form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty
Trad. 談話
- to talk (with sb)
- to have a conversation
- talk
- conversation
- CL:次[ci4]
Trad. 喊話
- to speak using a loud voice or megaphone etc
- (fig.) to convey a strong message
Trad. 放話
- to give orders
- to spread news or rumors
- to leak certain information intentionally
Trad. 費話
- to talk at length
- to waste one's breath
- variant of 廢話|废话[fei4 hua4]
Trad. 幹話
- (Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
Trad. 佳話
- story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide
Trad. 閒話
- casual conversation
- chat
- gossip
- to talk about (whatever comes to mind)
Trad. 平話
- storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
Trad. 笑話
- joke; jest (CL:個|个[ge4])
- to laugh at; to mock
- ridiculous; absurd
Trad. 固話
- fixed-line telephone; landline telephone (abbr. for 固定電話|固定电话[gu4 ding4 dian4 hua4])
Trad. 廢話
- nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
- You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
Trad. 詩話
- notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)
- a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties
Trad. 好話
- friendly advice
- words spoken on sb's behalf
- a good word
- kind words
- words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
Trad. 像話
- proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question)
Trad. 話筒
- microphone
- (telephone) receiver; handset
- megaphone
- (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson
Trad. 會話
- (language learning) conversation
- dialog
- to converse (in a non-native language)
- (computing) session
- CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4]
Trad. 套話
- polite phrase; conventional greetings
- cliché
- to try to worm facts out of sb
Trad. 話說
- It is said that ... (at the start of a narrative)
- to discuss; to recount
Trad. 評話
- storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
Trad. 夢話
- talking in one's sleep
- words spoken during sleep
- fig. speech bearing no relation to reality
- delusions
Trad. 普通話
- Mandarin (common language)
- Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
- ordinary speech
Trad. 客氣話
- words of politeness
- politesse
- decorous talking
- talk with propriety
Trad. 俏皮話
- witticism
- wisecrack
- sarcastic remark
- double entendre
Trad. 潮汕話
- Chaoshan or Teo-Swa, a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people of the Chaoshan region 潮汕[Chao2 shan4]
Trad. 蘇州話
- Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects 吳語|吴语[Wu2 yu3]
Trad. 電話門
- "Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
Trad. 啟海話
- Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai
Trad. 悄悄話
- whisperings
- private words
- confidences
- sweet nothings
Trad. 心裡話
- (to express one's) true feelings
- what is on one's mind
- secret mind
Trad. 閩南話
- Southern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas
- Hokkien, major variety of Southern Min
Trad. 看笑話
- to watch with amusement as sb makes a fool of himself
Trad. 話事人
- (coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss; the big cheese; the top dog
Trad. 話匣子
- phonograph or radio (old term)
- chatterbox
- talkative person
Trad. 話語權
- ability to have one's say and be listened to; influence; clout
Trad. 台山話
- Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语[Yue4 yu3] spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门[Jiang1 men2] and in the Chinatowns of North America
Trad. 打官話
- to talk officiously
- to assume the air of a functionary
- to talk in official jargon
Trad. 長途話費
- (telephony) long-distance call charge
Trad. 不在話下
- to be nothing difficult
- to be a cinch
Trad. 說來話長
- start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
Trad. 無線電話
- radio telephony
- wireless telephone
Trad. 鬼話連篇
- to tell one lie after another (idiom)
- to talk nonsense
- bogus story
Trad. 閑話家常
- to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)
Trad. 西南官話
- Southwestern Mandarin, dialect group of Mandarin spoken primarily in southwestern China
Trad. 說老實話
- to be honest
- to tell the truth
- to be frank
Trad. 無話不說
- (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
Trad. 無話不談
- not to hold anything back (idiom)
- (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
Trad. 說話算數
- to keep one's promise; to mean what one says
Trad. 說話算話
- to do as promised
- to be as good as one's word
- to honor one's word
- to mean what one says
Trad. 說風涼話
- to sneer
- to make cynical remarks
- sarcastic talk