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Chinese language
HSK 1
English (language)
HSK 2
foreign language / CL: 門|门
HSK 1
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
HSK 2
Japanese language
HSK 6
colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門|门
HSK 4
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
Chinese language
HSK 5
(idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
HSK 6
French (language)
HSK 6
Spanish language
HSK 6
the soft and melodic Wu dialect
Serbian (language)
Gaelic (language)
the language of flowers; symbolic meaning associated with a flower
premodifier (grammar)
Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas / Hokkien, the most widely spoken variety of Southern Min
The Analects of Confucius 孔子
words / speech / utterance / discourse
HSK 7-9
Taiwanese Hokkien (aka Taiwanese Minnan, or simply Taiwanese)
Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)
cheers and laughter
HSK 7-9
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
slang
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
epigram / meaningful or significant speech
choice of words / wording / phraseology / term
Russian (language)
HSK 7-9
foreword / preface
direct object (grammar)
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
sarcastic comments (idiom) / to make sarcastic comments
lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable
evil words / malicious talk
Hindi (language)
Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
Indonesian language
(idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
Latin (language)
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words / cheating wheedling / dishonest rhetoric
object (grammar)
bilingual
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
Indo-European (language)
Thai (language)
words / speech / (spoken) language
HSK 5
Malaysian Malay (the official variety of Malay spoken in Malaysia)
honorific (e.g. in grammar of oriental languages)
Middle Chinese (linguistics)
(grammar) modifier / qualifier / adjunct
commonly used phrase / idiom / colloquial usage
bold, visionary words
adverbial adjunct (adverb or adverbial clause)
Hungarian language
incantation / spell / enchantment / curse
to mumble to oneself
witticism
indirect object (grammar)
qualified word
Hakka dialect
subject (in grammar)
Xiang (Hunanese) dialect spoken in Hunan Province
comment / evaluation
humble expression
Chinglish
Buddhist term
written slogan / placard / CL: , 張|张, 條|条
HSK 7-9
Portuguese (language)
term / terminology
(linguistics) analytic language
obscene language
Mongolian (language)
to speak softly / to whisper (idiom)
polite set phrases
standard language
to use sign language
creole language
attributive (modifier)
German (language)
Polish (language)
monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form)
phrase (grammar)
agglutinative language (e.g. Turkish and Japanese)
Esperanto
Slavic language
foreign language
Greek language
sweet words / sweet talk
irony
Old Chinese (linguistics)
Irish language
to use sign language
(linguistics) an equivalent; a translation of a term into the target language
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
to talk to oneself
Portuguese (language)
note / comment

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