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telephone / CL: / phone call / CL: / phone number
HSK 1
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  *话* | 话* | *话
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL: 種|种, , , ,
HSK 1
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  *话* | 话* | *话
old variant of 話|话
HSK 1
to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
HSK 1
to make a telephone call
HSK 1
a speech / to speak / to talk / to address / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
HSK 2
joke; jest (CL:個|个) / to laugh at; to mock / ridiculous; absurd
HSK 2
if (coming after a conditional clause)
HSK 2
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
HSK 2
to talk (with sb) / to have a conversation / talk / conversation / CL:
HSK 3
children's fairy tales
HSK 4
legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology
HSK 4
in a word; in short
HSK 5
to hold a conversation / to talk over the telephone / phone call
HSK 6
to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly
HSK 6
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
HSK 7-9
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
lie
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb
HSK 7-9
(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
HSK 7-9
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
HSK 7-9
to chat / to gossip
HSK 7-9
unreasonable / shocking / outrageous
HSK 7-9
truth
HSK 7-9
(language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL: 個|个,
empty talk / bunk / malicious gossip
argot / bandits' secret jargon / malicious words
profanity / obscene language / speaking rudely
to ask sb a question / question
to reply
spoken language / vernacular
to admonish subordinates
talking in one's sleep / words spoken during sleep / fig. speech bearing no relation to reality / delusions
to discuss together
friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
to speak using a loud voice or megaphone etc / (fig.) to convey a strong message
proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question)
casual conversation / chat / gossip / to talk about (whatever comes to mind)
unpleasant talk / malicious words
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
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
an old saying
terms of endearment / words of love
whisperings / private words / confidences / sweet nothings
to talk / to get into conversation with / to send word
the content of a conversation / words / remarks
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
jargon / language of the trade
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
to reply / to answer
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
one's words carry an implicit meaning
to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression
irony / ironic remark
fixed-line telephone; landline telephone (abbr. for 固定電話|固定电话)
bullshit; nonsense
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty
something to be taken up later in speech or writing
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
vulgar language; coarse language
angry words / sth said in the moment of anger
sneering / sarcasm / cynical remarks
unreasonable / shocking; outrageous
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
ridiculous talk / preposterous remark
one's words carry an implicit meaning
straight talk / straightforward words
crazy talk / ravings / nonsense
ugly talk / vulgarity / obscenity
(dialect) to chat
foreign language (esp. Western)
obscenities / lewd talk
corny joke
variant of 像話|像话
biting words / stinging words
to talk at length / to waste one's breath / variant of 廢話|废话
foolish talk; nonsense
Hakka dialect
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
(let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush
Beijing dialect
mobile telephone
Grimm's Fairy Tales
a lie / untrue statement / misstatement
fixed-line telephone; landline telephone
Southern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas / Hokkien, major variety of Southern Min
Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect
videophone
to phone sb up
Chaoshan or Teo-Swa, a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people of the Chaoshan region 潮汕
witticism / wisecrack / sarcastic remark / double entendre
(idiom) to lie through one's teeth; to talk drivel
long-distance phone call
Jianghuai Mandarin
Taiwanese Hokkien
native language / native dialect

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