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口语

kǒu yǔ

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 口語 Measure word 门

口语 (kǒu yǔ) means "colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 口语 means

1. colloquial speech
2. spoken language
3. vernacular language
4. slander
5. gossip

The characters in 口语

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 我对口语英语更感兴趣。
  Wǒ duìkǒu yǔ Yīngyǔ gèng gǎnxìngqù.
  I'm more interested in spoken English.
• 口语比书面语更贴近生活。
  Spoken language is closer to life than written language.

Words starting with 口语

• 口语沟通kǒu yǔ gōu tōngoral communication (psychology)

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