閒話

See also: 闲话

Chinese

		idle; interstice; separate	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (閒話/閑話)		閒/閑	話
simp. (闲话)		闲	话
alternative forms		言話／言话 Wu “words; speech”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiánhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haan⁴ waa^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hàn-fa
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): êng-ōe / ûiⁿ-ōe / êng-ōa
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ghe-gho

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiánhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siánhuà
    • Wade–Giles: hsien²-hua⁴
    • Yale: syán-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyanhuah
    • Palladius: сяньхуа (sjanʹxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haan⁴ waa^6-2
    • Yale: hàahn wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haan⁴ waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: han⁴ wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːn²¹ waː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hàn-fa
    • Hakka Romanization System: hanˇ fa
    • Hagfa Pinyim: han² fa⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /han¹¹ fa⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: îng-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eng'oe
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ue³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻²² ue²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ²³⁻³³ ue³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûiⁿ-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: uînn-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: vui'oe
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uĩ²⁴⁻²² ue⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng-ōa
    • Tâi-lô: îng-uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eng'oa
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ¹³⁻²² ua²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶ghe-gho
    • MiniDict: ghe^去 gho
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhe-hho
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦe²² ɦo⁴⁴/

Verb

閒話

1. (literary) to talk casually; to chat

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 閒話

1. words of little importance; casual words; digression
2. gossip; rumour; word on the street
3. (Wu) words; speech; language; dialect

Synonyms

• (gossip): 閒聊／闲聊 (xiánliáo), 隨筆／随笔 (suíbǐ), 八卦 (bāguà)
• (words): 話／话 (huà)

Derived terms

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