大話

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See also: 大话

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (大話)		大	話
simp. (大话)		大	话

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dàhuà

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ waa⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai-fa
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-ōe / tōa-ōa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàhuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dàhuà
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴-hua⁴
  - Yale: dà-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahhuah
  - Palladius: дахуа (daxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daai⁶ waa⁶
  - Yale: daaih wah
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ waa⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ wa⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² waː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai-fa
  - Hakka Romanization System: tai fa
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tai⁴ fa⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fa⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-ōe
  - Tâi-lô: tuā-uē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxoe
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ ue²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ ue³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-ōa
  - Tâi-lô: tuā-uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxoa
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ ua²²/

Noun

大話

big talk; overstatement
(Cantonese) lie; false statements
講大話／讲大话 [Cantonese] ― gong² daai⁶ waa⁶ ― to tell a lie

Synonyms

(big talk): (literary) 大言 (dàyán), (Hokkien) 大空話／大空话
(lie):

Dialectal synonyms of 謊言 (“lie; untruth”)

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		妄言, 妄語
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		謊言, 謊話, 假話, 誑言, 誑語, 誑話
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	謊皮, 詐語
	Taiwan	謊話
	Singapore	騙話
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	謊屁流
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	謊話
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	謊
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	謊話
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	謊
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大話
	Hong Kong	大話
	Taishan	大話
	Dongguan	大話
	Singapore (Guangfu)	大話
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	花蓼
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	花蓼, 虎膦
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	花蓼
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	花舌
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	花蓼
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	花舌
Southern Min	Xiamen	白賊, 白賊話
	Quanzhou	白賊, 白賊話
	Zhangzhou	白賊, 白賊話, 白話
	Tainan	白賊話
	Penang (Hokkien)	騙話
	Singapore (Hokkien)	騙話
	Manila (Hokkien)	白賊, 白賊話
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	白落話
	Jieyang	花嬲話
Wu	Wenzhou	譀話

Derived terms

Verb

大話

to talk unrestrainedly (about something)

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 大空 (Dàkōng)

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