大話

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

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• 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

1. big talk; overstatement
2. (Cantonese) lie; false statements

   講大話／讲大话 [Cantonese]  ―  gong² daai⁶ waa⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  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”) [map]

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
	Wanrong	謊
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	謊話
	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

• 大話小結果 / 大话小结果
• 大話精 / 大话精
• 大話連篇 / 大话连篇
• 說大話 / 说大话 (shuō dàhuà)
• 說大話使小錢 / 说大话使小钱
• 講大話 / 讲大话 (jiǎng dàhuà)

Verb

大話

1. to talk unrestrainedly (about something)

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 大空 (Dàkōng)