If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好话
friendly advice
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
friendly advice
02
words spoken on sb's behalf
03
a good word
04
kind words
05
words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好话 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好话 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好话.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好话.
Directly before
- 没好话1
- 口说好话1
- 一句好话1
- 几句好话1
Directly after
- 好话说1
- 好话就1
- 好话多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 好话
What does 好话 mean in Chinese?
好话 (hǎohuà) means friendly advice.
How do you pronounce 好话?
好话 is pronounced hǎohuà.
Is 好话 an HSK word?
好话 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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