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闲话

xián huà

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

闲话 (xián huà) means "casual conversation; chat; gossip". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 闲话 means

1. casual conversation
2. chat
3. gossip
4. to talk about (whatever comes to mind)

The characters in 闲话

• 闲xiánenclosure; (variant of 闲; unoccupied
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Example sentences

• 他们不只是洗去汗水、污垢和镇日的操劳，同时也沉浸在闲话家常日常生活当中。
  Tāmen bù zhǐshì xǐ qù hànshuǐ, wū gòu hé zhènrì de cāoláo, tóngshí yě chénjìn zài xiánhuà jiācháng rìcháng shēnghuó dāngzhōng.
  They not only washed off the sweat, dirt and cares of the day in the hot water, but also enjoyed gossiping about everyday affairs.

Words starting with 闲话

• 闲话家常xián huà jiā chángto chat about domestic trivia (idiom)

Words containing 闲话

• 说闲话shuō xián huàto chat; to gossip
• 讲闲话jiǎng xián huàto gossip; to make unfavorable comments

Where 闲话 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xián huà correctly.
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