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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

心里话

xīnlihuà

(to express one's) true feelings

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(to express one's) true feelings

02

what is on one's mind

03

secret mind

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 心里话 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 心里话 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我跟她说了心里话。wǒ gēn tā shuō le xīn lǐ huà。

I bared my soul to her.

我把心里话说出来了。wǒ bǎ xīn lǐ huà shuō chū lái le。

I spoke from the heart.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 心里话.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 心里话.

Directly before

  • 了心里话1
  • 把心里话1

Directly after

  • 心里话说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 心里话

What does 心里话 mean in Chinese?

心里话 (xīnlihuà) means (to express one's) true feelings.

How do you pronounce 心里话?

心里话 is pronounced xīnlihuà.

Is 心里话 an HSK word?

心里话 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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