Love is not talking nonsense.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
花言巧语
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words
02
cheating wheedling
03
dishonest rhetoric
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 花言巧语 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 花言巧语 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 花言巧语.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 花言巧语.
Directly before
- 不是花言巧语1
- 的花言巧语1
Directly after
- 花言巧语给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 花言巧语
What does 花言巧语 mean in Chinese?
花言巧语 (huāyánqiǎoyǔ) means graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words.
How do you pronounce 花言巧语?
花言巧语 is pronounced huāyánqiǎoyǔ.
Is 花言巧语 an HSK word?
花言巧语 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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