Don't speak ill of others behind their back.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
坏话
unpleasant talk
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unpleasant talk
02
malicious words
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 坏话 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 坏话 appears in 18 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Talking bad about mother again, eh?
You are too ready to speak ill of others.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 坏话.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 坏话.
Directly before
- 的坏话6
- 别人坏话4
- 人坏话2
- 一句坏话1
- 他人坏话1
Directly after
- 坏话了4
- 坏话的2
- 坏话如1
- 坏话不是1
- 坏话吗1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 坏话
What does 坏话 mean in Chinese?
坏话 (huàihuà) means unpleasant talk.
How do you pronounce 坏话?
坏话 is pronounced huàihuà.
Is 坏话 an HSK word?
坏话 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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