土話

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (土話)		土	話
simp. (土话)		土	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): tǔhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): тухуа (tuhua, II-III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thú-fa
• Jin (Wiktionary): tu² hua³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thó͘-ōe / thó͘-ōa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tou² uê⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǔhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǔhuà
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu³-hua⁴
    • Yale: tǔ-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuuhuah
    • Palladius: тухуа (tuxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: тухуа (tuhua, II-III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou⁵¹ xua⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
    • Yale: tóu wah / tóu wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou² wa⁶ / tou² wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ waː²²/, /tʰou̯³⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thú-fa
    • Hakka Romanization System: tu` fa
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tu³ fa⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰu³¹ fa⁵⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tu² hua³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰxu⁵³ xua⁴⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: thóo-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tofoe
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue²²/
    • IPA (Singapore): /tʰɔ⁴²⁻²⁴ ue²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ue⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘-ōa
    • Tâi-lô: thóo-uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tofoa
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ua²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tou² uê⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thóu uē
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou⁵²⁻³⁵ ue¹¹/

Noun

土話

1. local, colloquial expressions; local dialect

   羊城土話／羊城土话 [Cantonese]  ―  joeng⁴ sing⁴ tou² waa^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  Canton dialect

2. (Hokkien) rough and blunt speech

Synonyms

• (local, colloquial expressions): (Xiang) 土話子／土话子

Derived terms

• 湘南土話／湘南土话
• 粵北土話／粤北土话
• 韶州土話／韶州土话 (Sháozhōu tǔhuà)