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傻话 (shǎ huà) — foolish talk; nonsense

Definition

Refers to words or talk that are silly or make no sense (literally 'foolish talk'). Almost always used with 说 — 说傻话 — to mean 'talk nonsense'.

noun
foolish talknonsense

Examples

  • 傻话，。
    Tā zài nà r shuō le yì duī shǎ huà, méi rén dàng zhēn.
    He was spouting a bunch of nonsense over there, and nobody took it seriously.
  • 傻话，。
    Zhè xiē dōu shì shǎ huà, bié xìn tā men.
    This is all nonsense — don't believe them.
  • 傻话，。
    Nǐ yòu zài shuō shǎ huà le, kuài qīng xǐng yì diǎn.
    You're talking nonsense again, snap out of it.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

傻shǎfoolish
话huàtalk

傻 means foolish and 话 means talk; together they describe foolish talk or nonsense.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 傻 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 話; 话 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
言言yánword
Sound part声符shēngfú
𠯑
𠯑𠯑話huà
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

In the traditional form 話, 言 relates to words and 𠯑 gives the sound; the simplified 话 is a shorthand, so its right side is not that sound part.

Open 话 →
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