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花言巧语

huā yán qiǎo yǔ

4-character word Traditional 花言巧語

What 花言巧语 means

1. graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words
2. cheating wheedling
3. dishonest rhetoric

The characters in 花言巧语

• 花huāflower; blossom; fancy pattern
• 言yánwords; speech; to say
• 巧qiǎoopportunely; coincidentally; as it happens
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 爱不是花言巧语。
  Love is not talking nonsense.