廢話文學

Chinese

		rubbish; worthless words; superfluous words rubbish; worthless words; superfluous words; to speak worthless words	literature; arts; liberal arts literature; arts; liberal arts; humanities
trad. (廢話文學)		廢話	文學
simp. (废话文学)		废话	文学

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèihuà wénxué

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄒㄩㄝˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèihuà wénxué
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄒㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèihuà wúnsyué
    • Wade–Giles: fei⁴-hua⁴ wên²-hsüeh²
    • Yale: fèi-hwà wén-sywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feyhuah wenshyue
    • Palladius: фэйхуа вэньсюэ (fɛjxua vɛnʹsjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹ wən³⁵ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

Noun

廢話文學

Examples
Feihua wenxue may be simply used for the amusement itself of the tautology: 聽君一席話，如聽一席話。 It may also be employed to convey actual communicational meaning: 我一怒之下怒了一下。 – implies that the speaker was timid and didn't do anything during the anger session.

1. (Mainland China) A kind of wordplay involving tautology.