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瞎说

xiāshuō

to talk drivel

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to talk drivel

02

to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact

03

not to know what one is talking about

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 瞎说 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 瞎说 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

瞎说!xiā shuō!

Nonsense!

不是瞎说,我这份工作真是没劲!bú shì xiā shuō, wǒ zhè fèn gōng zuò zhēn shì méi jìn!

Do not talk nonsense, My job is very boring!

别瞎说啊,你看,我这儿的竹笋是最好的!bié xiā shuō a, nǐ kàn, wǒ zhè ér de zhú sǔn shì zuì hǎo de!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 瞎说.

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

Directly before

  • 别瞎说1
  • 不是瞎说1

Directly after

  • 瞎说啊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 瞎说

What does 瞎说 mean in Chinese?

瞎说 (xiāshuō) means to talk drivel.

How do you pronounce 瞎说?

瞎说 is pronounced xiāshuō.

Is 瞎说 an HSK word?

瞎说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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