谣言 (謠言)
yáo yán
Pinyin

Definition

谣言 (謠言)
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yáo yán
  1. rumor

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

liú yán
  1. 1 to leave a message
  2. 2 to leave one's comments
  3. 3 message
zhēn yán
  1. 1 admonition
  2. 2 exhortation
  3. 3 dictum
  4. 4 the biblical Book of Proverbs
yán
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 to say
  4. 4 to talk
yán yǔ
  1. 1 words
  2. 2 speech
  3. 3 (spoken) language
yǔ yán
  1. 1 language
  2. 2 classifier: 门 mén
  3. 3 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (20)

一言一动
yī yán yī dòng
  1. 1 (one's) every word and deed (idiom)
一言一行
yī yán yī xíng
  1. 1 every word and action (idiom)
一言不发
yī yán bù fā
  1. 1 to not say a word (idiom)
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
一言以蔽之
yī yán yǐ bì zhī
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short
  2. 2 in a nutshell

Sample Sentences

那“风扇死”可能也就是这样的迷信或者谣言。
nà “fēngshànsǐ ”kěnéng yějiùshì zhèyàng de míxìn huò zhě yáoyán 。
Then "fan death" may also just be a similar kind of superstition or rumor.
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