洋話

Chinese

		ocean; foreign	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (洋話)		洋	話
simp. (洋话)		洋	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yánghuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁴ waa^6-2

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yánghuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yánghuà
    • Wade–Giles: yang²-hua⁴
    • Yale: yáng-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yanghuah
    • Palladius: янхуа (janxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁴ waa^6-2
    • Yale: yèuhng wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁴ waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng⁴ wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ²¹ waː²²⁻³⁵/

Noun

洋話

1. (dated or regional) foreign language

Synonyms

• 外國話／外国话 (wàiguóhuà)
• 外國語／外国语 (wàiguóyǔ)
• 外文 (wàiwén) (in written form)
• 外語／外语 (wàiyǔ)
• 番話／番话 (faan¹ waa^6-2) (Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew)
• 紅毛話／红毛话 (dialectal, Jieyang Teochew)