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HSK
foreign language / CL: 門|门
HSK 1
Chinese language
HSK 1
language / CL: 門|门, 種|种
HSK 2
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
HSK 2
English (language)
HSK 2
speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message
HSK 4
grammar
HSK 4
colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門|门
HSK 4
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
Chinese language
HSK 5
words / speech / (spoken) language
HSK 5
Japanese language
HSK 6
Spanish language
HSK 6
French (language)
HSK 6
(idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
HSK 6
words / speech / utterance / discourse
HSK 7-9
Russian (language)
HSK 7-9
tone / manner of speaking / mood / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
riddle / conundrum / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
cheers and laughter
HSK 7-9
written slogan / placard / CL: , 張|张, 條|条
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
(linguistics) flow of speech
words to tease sb
slang
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
foreign language
Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas / Hokkien, the most widely spoken variety of Southern Min
Tibetan language
preamble / introduction / (journalism) lede / lead paragraph
Esperanto
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
proverb
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
concluding remarks
Italian (language)
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
flowery writing / writing concerning love and sex
Cantonese language
bilingual
Taiwanese Hokkien (aka Taiwanese Minnan, or simply Taiwanese)
comment / evaluation
Latin (language)
sign language
game where the last word of one idiom 成語|成语 is the first of the next
The Analects of Confucius 孔子
commonly used phrase / idiom / colloquial usage
to remain silent / to have nothing to say / (coll.) speechless / dumbfounded
literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
Vietnamese language, Tiếng Việt
euphemism
obscene language
Tagalog (language)
Bosnian (language)
German (language)
to be at a loss for words / speechless
Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)
code word; coded language / to communicate in private
Kazakh language
programming language (Tw)
western language / Spanish (language)
Uighur language
tongues (spiritual gift)
to make a remark that startles everyone present (idiom) / (of a remark) startling
creole language
incantation / spell / enchantment / curse
Mongolian (language)
(literary) not to speak
linguistics
anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
sentence
mutter
term / terminology
Turkish (language)
Thai (language)
Hanyu Pinyin, the romanization system used in the PRC since the 1960s
intonation / tone of voice / CL: 個|个
to mumble to oneself
written language
Sanskrit (language)
Hebrew (language)
Min dialects, spoken in Fujian Province, Taiwan etc
Hindi (language)
monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form)
The Tale of Genji, classic Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century)
(idiom) to whisper
(idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery
Tamil language
Urdu (language)
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
incoherent speech / to talk without rhyme or reason (idiom)
meaningful and heartfelt words (idiom); sincere and earnest wishes
Bengali (language)
corpus
to chat with a low voice
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆

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