评话
píng huà
Pinyin

Definition

评话
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píng huà
  1. storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

大话骰
dà huà tóu
  1. 1 liar's dice (dice game)
的话
de huà
  1. 1 if (coming after a conditional clause)
笑话
xiào huà
  1. 1 joke
  2. 2 jest
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
  4. 4 to laugh at
  5. 5 to mock
评论
píng lùn
  1. 1 to comment on
  2. 2 to discuss
  3. 3 comment
  4. 4 commentary
  5. 5 CL:篇[piān]
话
huà
  1. 1 dialect
  2. 2 language
  3. 3 spoken words
  4. 4 speech
  5. 5 talk
  6. 6 words
  7. 7 conversation
  8. 8 what sb said
  9. 9 CL:種|种[zhǒng],席[xí],句[jù],口[kǒu],番[fān]
话费
huà fèi
  1. 1 call charge
说话
shuō huà
  1. 1 to speak
  2. 2 to say
  3. 3 to talk
  4. 4 to gossip
  5. 5 to tell stories
  6. 6 talk
  7. 7 word
电话
diàn huà
  1. 1 telephone
  2. 2 CL:部[bù]
  3. 3 phone call
  4. 4 CL:通[tōng]
  5. 5 phone number
俗话
sú huà
  1. 1 common saying
  2. 2 proverb
假话
jiǎ huà
  1. 1 a lie
  2. 2 untrue statement
  3. 3 misstatement
冷笑话
lěng xiào huà
  1. 1 joke intended to be so corny it makes one groan
坏话
huài huà
  1. 1 unpleasant talk
  2. 2 malicious words
梦话
mèng huà
  1. 1 talking in one's sleep
  2. 2 words spoken during sleep
  3. 3 fig. speech bearing no relation to reality
  4. 4 delusions
好评
hǎo píng
  1. 1 favorable criticism
  2. 2 positive evaluation
好话
hǎo huà
  1. 1 friendly advice
  2. 2 words spoken on sb's behalf
  3. 3 a good word
  4. 4 kind words
  5. 5 words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
实话
shí huà
  1. 1 truth
对话
duì huà
  1. 1 dialogue
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
废话
fèi huà
  1. 1 nonsense
  2. 2 rubbish
  3. 3 superfluous words
  4. 4 You don't say!
  5. 5 No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
影评
yǐng píng
  1. 1 film review
心里话
xīn li huà
  1. 1 (to express one's) true feelings
  2. 2 what is on one's mind
  3. 3 secret mind

Idioms (20)

三句话不离本行
sān jù huà bù lí běn háng
  1. 1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)
不问就听不到假话
bù wèn jiù tīng bù dào jiǎ huà
  1. 1 Don't ask and you won't be told any lies. (idiom)
二话不说
èr huà bù shuō
  1. 1 not saying anything further (idiom); not raising any objection
  2. 2 without demur
句句实话
jù jù shí huà
  1. 1 to speak honestly (idiom)
无话不谈
wú huà bù tán
  1. 1 not to hold anything back (idiom)
  2. 2 (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
无话可说
wú huà kě shuō
  1. 1 to have nothing to say (idiom)
睁眼说瞎话
zhēng yǎn shuō xiā huà
  1. 1 to lie through one's teeth (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk drivel
睁着眼睛说瞎话
zhēng zhe yǎn jīng shuō xiā huà
  1. 1 to lie through one's teeth (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk drivel
站着说话不腰疼
zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng
  1. 1 it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom)
  2. 2 to be an armchair expert
  3. 3 to blabber on
听话听声，锣鼓听音
tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
  1. 1 to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
评头品足
píng tóu pǐn zú
  1. 1 to make idle remarks about a woman's appearance (idiom)
评头论足
píng tóu lùn zú
  1. 1 lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom); minute criticism of a woman's appearance
  2. 2 fig. to find fault in minor details
  3. 3 to remark upon a person's appearance
  4. 4 nitpicking
  5. 5 overcritical
  6. 6 judgmental
话不投机
huà bù tóu jī
  1. 1 the conversation is disagreeable (idiom)
话不投机半句多
huà bù tóu jī bàn jù duō
  1. 1 when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion (idiom)
话到嘴边留三分
huà dào zuǐ biān liú sān fēn
  1. 1 A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom)
话多不甜
huà duō bù tián
  1. 1 too much talk is a nuisance (idiom)
说来话长
shuō lái huà cháng
  1. 1 start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
长话短说
cháng huà duǎn shuō
  1. 1 to make a long story short (idiom)
闲话家常
xián huà jiā cháng
  1. 1 to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)
鬼话连篇
guǐ huà lián piān
  1. 1 to tell one lie after another (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk nonsense
  3. 3 bogus story

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