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俗话

sú huà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 俗話

俗话 (sú huà) means "common saying; proverb". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 俗话 means

1. common saying
2. proverb

The characters in 俗话

• 俗súcustom; convention; popular
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 俗话说：高丽菜汤和粥是我们的食物。
  There is a saying: cabbage soup and porridge are our food.
• 俗话说：双喜临门；可俗话又说：福无双进，祸不单行！
  Súhuà shuō: shuāng xǐ lín mén; kě súhuà yòu shuō: fú wú shuāng jìn, huò bù dān xíng!
  There’s a saying that goes, "Fortune always comes in pairs." But there’s another saying that says, "Fortune comes, but never in pairs, while misfortune always does."
• 俗话说：邪不压正；可俗话又说：道高一尺，魔高一丈！
  Súhuàshuō: xié bù yā zhèng; kě súhuà yòu shuō: dàogāoyīchǐ, mógāoyīzhàng!
  As the saying goes: "good always triumphs over evil". But there's another saying that: "the fight against evil is a constant struggle".
• 俗话说：浪子回头金不换；可俗话又说：狗改不了吃屎！
  The saying goes: to turn a new leaf is priceless. The saying also goes: a dog can't change their habits of eating shit!
• 俗话说：一寸光阴一寸金；可俗话又说：寸金难买寸光阴！
  Súhuàshuō: yīcùnguāngyīnyīcùnjīn; kě súhuà yòu shuō: cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn!
  There is a proverb that goes "time is money", but there is another one that goes "money can't buy you time".
• 俗话说：人不犯我，我不犯人；可俗话又说：先下手为强，后下手遭殃!
  As the saying goes: As long as you don't offend me, I won't offend you. But there's another saying: To strike first means victory, to strike second means tragedy.

Words starting with 俗话

• 俗话说sú huà shuōas the proverb says; as they say...

Where 俗话 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · sǐ–sù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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