谎 huǎng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 荒 wasteland, desert
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
谎话
huǎnghuà
lie; falsehood
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
- 他把谎话说得滴水不漏，却忽略了时间线上的矛盾。 Tā bǎ huǎnghuà shuō de dī shuǐ bù lòu, què hūlüè le shíjiānxiàn shang de máodùn. He told the lie flawlessly, yet overlooked contradictions in the timeline.
- 小孩子说谎话的时候，常常不敢看大人的眼睛。 Xiǎoháizi shuō huǎnghuà de shíhou, chángcháng bù gǎn kàn dàrén de yǎnjing. When small children tell lies, they often do not dare to look an adult in the eye.
- 他编了一个谎话，说自己的手机没电了。 Tā biān le yí ge huǎnghuà, shuō zìjǐ de shǒujī méi diàn le. He made up a lie, saying that his phone had run out of battery.
Related words
- 谎言 huǎngyán lie; false statement
- 撒谎 sāhuǎng to lie; to tell lies
- 说谎 shuōhuǎng to lie; to tell a lie
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电话 diànhuà telephone; phone call
- 话 huà speech, words
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 的话 dehuà if (after a condition)
- 对话 duìhuà dialogue
- 讲话 jiǎnghuà to speak; to talk
- 普通话 pǔtōnghuà Standard Mandarin
- 笑话 xiàohuà joke