說話算話

Chinese

		to speak; to talk; to chat	regard as; to figure; to calculate regard as; to figure; to calculate; to compute	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (說話算話)		說話	算	話
simp. (说话算话)		说话	算	话

(This form in the hanzi box is uncreated: "说话算话".)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuōhuàsuànhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄙㄨㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syut³ waa⁶ syun³ waa⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuōhuàsuànhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄙㄨㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuohuàsuànhuà
    • Wade–Giles: shuo¹-hua⁴-suan⁴-hua⁴
    • Yale: shwō-hwà-swàn-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuohuahsuannhuah
    • Palladius: шохуасуаньхуа (šoxuasuanʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ su̯än⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syut³ waa⁶ syun³ waa⁶
    • Yale: syut wah syun wah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syt⁸ waa⁶ syn³ waa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xud³ wa⁶ xun³ wa⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːt̚³ waː²² syːn³³ waː²²/

Idiom

說話算話

1. to be as good as one's word; to be true to one's word; to keep one's word