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像话

xiàng huà

2-character word Traditional 像話

What 像话 means

1. proper; appropriate (mostly used in the negative or in a rhetorical question)

The characters in 像话

• 像xiàngto resemble; to be like; to look as if
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 这太不像话。
  It doesn't look like anything.

Words containing 像话

• 不像话bù xiàng huàunreasonable; shocking; outrageous

Sounds the same

Read xiàng huà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 象话variant of 像话

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiàng huà correctly.
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