說夢話

Chinese

		to speak; to say; persuade (politically)	words uttered during sleeptalking; somniloquy; unrealistic words words uttered during sleeptalking; somniloquy; unrealistic words; nonsense; baloney; bull
trad. (說夢話)		說	夢話
simp. (说梦话)		说	梦话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): shuō mènghuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛ ㄇㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): so² mong⁴ hua⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³ mung⁶ waa⁶
• Jin (Wiktionary): sueh⁴ meng³ hua³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuō mènghuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛ ㄇㄥˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuo mènghuà
    • Wade–Giles: shuo¹ mêng⁴-hua⁴
    • Yale: shwō mèng-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuo menqhuah
    • Palladius: шо мэнхуа (šo mɛnxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ mɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: so² mong⁴ hua⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: somungxua
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /so²¹ moŋ²¹³ xua²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syut³ mung⁶ waa⁶
    • Yale: syut muhng wah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸ mung⁶ waa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xud³ mung⁶ wa⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːt̚³ mʊŋ²² waː²²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: sueh⁴ meng³ hua³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /suəʔ² mə̃ŋ⁴⁵ xua⁴⁵/

Verb

說⫽夢話 (verb-object)

1. to talk in one's sleep; to sleeptalk
2. (figuratively) to talk about nonsense things; to say preposterous things

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 說夢話 (“to sleeptalk”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		夢囈, 囈語, 說夢話
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	說夢話
	Taiwan	說夢話
	Harbin	說夢話
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	說夢話, 說睡話, 說睡語
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	說睡語
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	發囈怔
	Wanrong	說夢話
	Zhengzhou	說夢話, 發囈怔
	Xi'an	說胡話
	Xining	說胡話
	Xuzhou	發囈似, 發囈怔
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	說胡話
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	說夢話
	Lanzhou	說胡話
	Ürümqi	說夢話
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	說夢話
	Wuhan	發夢天
	Guiyang	說夢話
	Liuzhou	講夢話
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	說夢話, 講夢話
	Yangzhou	說夢話, 做響夢
	Nantong	說睏話兒
	Huanggang	說夢話
Cantonese	Guangzhou	發開口夢, 發夢話
	Hong Kong	發開口夢
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	發開口夢
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	發開口夢
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	發開口夢
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	講夢話
	Macau	發開口夢
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	發開口夢
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	發開口夢
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	發開口夢
	Foshan	發開口夢
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	發開口夢
	Foshan (Shunde)	發開口夢
	Foshan (Sanshui)	發開口夢
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	發夢話
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	發開口夢
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	發開口夢
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	財開口夢
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	發開口夢
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	發開口夢
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	發開口夢
	Taishan	發開口夢
	Kaiping (Chikan)	發開口夢
	Enping (Niujiang)	發開口夢
	Heshan (Yayao)	講夢話
	Dongguan	發開口夢
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	發開口夢
	Shaoguan	發開口夢
	Yunfu	發開口夢
	Xinyi	講懵話, 講懵
	Lianjiang	發開口夢
	Beihai	講夢話
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	講夢話
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	講夢話
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	講夢
	Sanya (Yanglan Maihua)	講夢話
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	發開口夢
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	講夢話
	Móng Cái	開口夢
Gan	Nanchang	話夢話
	Lichuan	打夢話
	Pingxiang	打開聲夢講
Hakka	Meixian	講夢話
	Zhongshan (Wuguishan)	發目睡狂
	Changting	講夢話
	Yudu	打夢話
	Shicheng	話夢話
	Shangyou (Shexi)	打夢講
	Hong Kong	講夢話
	Senai (Huiyang)	講夢話
	Singkawang	講狂話
Huizhou	Jixi	講夢話
Jin	Taiyuan	說夢話
	Pingyao	睡說
	Xinzhou	睡說
	Hohhot	說夢話
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	狂眠, 講夢話
	Fuqing	狂眠
Southern Min	Xiamen	陷眠
	Quanzhou	陷眠
	Zhangzhou	陷眠
	Dongshan	陷眠
	Taipei	陷眠
	Kaohsiung	陷眠
	Yilan	陷眠
	Changhua (Lukang)	陷眠
	Taichung	陷眠
	Taichung (Wuqi)	陷眠
	Tainan	陷眠
	Taitung	陷眠
	Hsinchu	陷眠
	Penghu (Magong)	陷眠
	Singapore (Hokkien)	陷眠
	Manila (Hokkien)	陷眠
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	講離話
	Chaozhou	呾夢話
	Shantou	呾夢話
	Jieyang	呾夢話
	Pontianak (Teochew)	ngigau
	Haikou	鬼眠
Puxian Min	Putian	講夢話
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	講夢話
Wu	Shanghai	講夢話, 話睏話
	Shanghai (Chongming)	話睏話
	Suzhou	說睏話
	Wuxi	說睏話
	Danyang	說夢話, 講夢話
	Hangzhou	說睏話
	Ningbo	講夜話
	Wenzhou	睏講
	Jinhua	講眠夢話
Xiang	Changsha	講夢話
	Loudi	講夢話

• (talk about nonsense things): 囈語／呓语 (yìyǔ), 夢囈／梦呓 (mèngyì)