废话
fèihuà
nonsense; empty talk; to talk nonsense
Characters in this word
话 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 会议时间有限，请直接说明风险，不要把重点淹没在废话里。 Huìyì shíjiān yǒuxiàn, qǐng zhíjiē shuōmíng fēngxiǎn, bú yào bǎ zhòngdiǎn yānmò zài fèihuà lǐ. Meeting time is limited, so state the risks directly and do not bury the key points in empty talk.
- 别说废话了，快点告诉我结果。 Bié shuō fèihuà le, kuài diǎn gàosu wǒ jiéguǒ. Stop the nonsense and tell me the result quickly.
- 他说了一大堆废话，却一句重点也没讲到。 Tā shuō le yí dà duī fèihuà, què yí jù zhòngdiǎn yě méi jiǎng dào. He said a pile of empty talk but did not touch on a single key point.
Related words
- 半途而废 bàntú'érfèi to give up halfway
- 报废 bàofèi to scrap; to be discarded as unusable
- 废 fèi to abolish; useless; wasted
- 废除 fèichú to abolish; to repeal
- 废品 fèipǐn waste product; discarded item
- 废弃 fèiqì to abandon; to discard
- 废寝忘食 fèiqǐnwàngshí to neglect sleep and food; to be completely absorbed
- 废物 fèiwù waste; useless thing or person
- 废墟 fèixū ruins
- 颓废 tuífèi decadent; dispirited; dejected
- 作废 zuòfèi to invalidate; to become void
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call