聽閒話

Chinese

	let; allow; listen let; allow; listen; hear; obey	to talk casually; to chat; words of little importance to talk casually; to chat; words of little importance; casual words; digression
trad. (聽閒話)	聽	閒話
simp. (听闲话)	听	闲话
alternative forms	聽言話／听言话

聽⫽閒話 (verb-object)

Dialectal synonyms of 聽話 (“to be obedient”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聽話, 聽說
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	聽話, 聽說
	Taiwan	聽話
	Harbin	聽說, 聽說聽道兒
	Singapore	聽話
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	聽話, 聽說
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	聽話
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	聽說
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	聽說
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	聽話
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	聽講
Cantonese	Hong Kong	聽話, 聽教聽話, 聽教
Cantonese	Taishan	聽教
Gan	Nanchang	聽話
	Lichuan	聽話
	Pingxiang	聽話
Hakka	Meixian	聽話
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聽話, 聽講
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	聽話, 聽講
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	聽話, 聽講
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	聽話, 聽講
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	聽話, 聽講
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	聽事, 聽人講
Huizhou	Jixi	聽話, 聽講, 聽人講
Jin	Taiyuan	聽說
Jin	Xinzhou	聽說
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	聽喙
Southern Min	Xiamen	聽喙
	Quanzhou	聽喙
	Zhangzhou	聽喙
	Tainan	聽喙
	Singapore (Hokkien)	聽喙
	Manila (Hokkien)	聽喙, 聽話
	Jieyang	聽呾
	Puning	聽話, 聽呾
	Leizhou	聽講
	Haikou	聽講
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	聽話, 聽講
Wu	Shanghai	聽閒話
	Shanghai (Chongming)	聽話
	Danyang	聽話
	Hangzhou	聽話語
	Wenzhou	聽講
	Jinhua	聽講, 聽話
Xiang	Changsha	聽講

聽閒話

(Wu) well-behaved
搿小囡老聽閒話個！ [Shanghainese, trad.]
搿小囡老听闲话个！ [Shanghainese, simp.]
⁸geq ⁵shiau-noe₆ ⁶lau ¹thin ⁶ghe-gho₆-gheq₈ [Wugniu]
This kid is really well-behaved!