人話

Chinese

		man; person; people	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (人話)		人	話
simp. (人话)		人	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rénhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁴ waa^6-2 / jan⁴ waa⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rénhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rénhuà
    • Wade–Giles: jên²-hua⁴
    • Yale: rén-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renhuah
    • Palladius: жэньхуа (žɛnʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan⁴ waa^6-2 / jan⁴ waa⁶
    • Yale: yàhn wá / yàhn wah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁴ waa^6-2 / jan⁴ waa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁴ wa^6-2 / yen⁴ wa⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²¹ waː²²⁻³⁵/, /jɐn²¹ waː²²/

Noun

人話

1. human speech; (by extension) sensible talk

   還會說人話嗎？／还会说人话吗？  ―  Hái huì shuō rénhuà ma?  ―  Do you even know how to talk?

Derived terms

• 見人說人話，見鬼說鬼話／见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话 (jiàn rén shuō rénhuà, jiàn guǐ shuō guǐhuà)