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废话

fèi huà

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 廢話

废话 (fèi huà) means "nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 废话 means

1. nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
2. You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

The characters in 废话

• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 不要说废话！
  Don't talk nonsense!
• 这是什么废话？
  Zhè shì shénme fèihuà?
  What is this nonsense?
• 这是什幺废话？
  What is this nonsense?
• 废话少说，说重点。
  Stop saying trifles! Focus on the main point.
• 我们不要再说废话了。
  Wǒmen bù yào zàishuō fèihuà le.
  Let's end this nonsense.
• 别听他的, 他在说废话。
  Don't listen to him, he's talking nonsense.

Words starting with 废话

• 废话连篇fèi huà lián piāna bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling

Words containing 废话

• 说废话shuō fèi huàto talk nonsense; to bullshit

Sounds the same

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

• 费话to talk at length; to waste one's breath; variant of 废话

Where 废话 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Evaluation, Faults & Criticism (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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