聽話

See also: 听话

Chinese

		let; allow; listen let; allow; listen; hear; obey	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (聽話)		聽	話
simp. (听话)		听	话

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tīnghuà

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄥㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): teng¹ waa⁶
Gan (Wiktionary): tiang¹ ua⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thâng-fa

(Meixian, Guangdong): tang¹ va⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thiaⁿ-ōe / thiaⁿ-ōa

(Teochew, Peng'im): tian¹ uê⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tīnghuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄥㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tinghuà
  - Wade–Giles: tʻing¹-hua⁴
  - Yale: tīng-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tinghuah
  - Palladius: тинхуа (tinxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: teng¹ waa⁶
  - Yale: tēng wah
  - Cantonese Pinyin: teng¹ waa⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: téng¹ wa⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛːŋ⁵⁵ waː²²/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: tiang¹ ua⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiaŋ⁴² ua¹¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâng-fa
  - Hakka Romanization System: tang^ˊ fa
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tang¹ fa⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰaŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ fa⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: tang¹ va⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ ʋa⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiaⁿ-ōe
  - Tâi-lô: thiann-uē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tvia'oe
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiã⁴⁴⁻²² ue²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiã⁴⁴⁻³³ ue³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiã³³ ue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiaⁿ-ōa
  - Tâi-lô: thiann-uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tvia'oa
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiã⁴⁴⁻²² ua²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tian¹ uê⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiaⁿ uē
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰĩã³³⁻²³ ue¹¹/

Note: Chaoyang.

Verb

聽話

to listen to others speak
to obey; to behave; to be obedient; to heed advice
to await a reply or instructions

Synonyms

(to obey):

Dialectal synonyms of 聽話 (“to be obedient”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聽話, 聽說
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	聽話, 聽說
	Taiwan	聽話
	Harbin	聽說, 聽說聽道兒
	Singapore	聽話
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	聽話, 聽說
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	聽話
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	聽說
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	聽說
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	聽話
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	聽講
Cantonese	Hong Kong	聽話, 聽教聽話, 聽教
Cantonese	Taishan	聽教
Gan	Nanchang	聽話
	Lichuan	聽話
	Pingxiang	聽話
Hakka	Meixian	聽話
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聽話, 聽講
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	聽話, 聽講
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	聽話, 聽講
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	聽話, 聽講
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	聽話, 聽講
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	聽事, 聽人講
Huizhou	Jixi	聽話, 聽講, 聽人講
Jin	Taiyuan	聽說
Jin	Xinzhou	聽說
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	聽喙
Southern Min	Xiamen	聽喙
	Quanzhou	聽喙
	Zhangzhou	聽喙
	Tainan	聽喙
	Singapore (Hokkien)	聽喙
	Manila (Hokkien)	聽喙, 聽話
	Jieyang	聽呾
	Puning	聽話, 聽呾
	Leizhou	聽講
	Haikou	聽講
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	聽話, 聽講
Wu	Shanghai	聽閒話
	Shanghai (Chongming)	聽話
	Danyang	聽話
	Hangzhou	聽話語
	Wenzhou	聽講
	Jinhua	聽講, 聽話
Xiang	Changsha	聽講

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依從 / 依从 (yīcóng)
就 (jiù) (literary, or in compounds)
服
服從 / 服从 (fúcóng)
歸附 / 归附 (guīfù)
聽從 / 听从 (tīngcóng)
訓 / 训 (xùn) (literary)
賓服 / 宾服 (bīnfú) (literary)
隨 / 随 (suí)
順 / 顺 (shùn)
順從 / 顺从 (shùncóng)
順趁 / 顺趁 (Xiamen Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)

Adjective

聽話

(usually said of a child) sensible; capable; good; thoughtful; smart; well-behaved
一個懂事聽話的小孩 [MSC, trad.]
一个懂事听话的小孩 [MSC, simp.]
yī ge dǒngshì tīnghuà de xiǎohái [Pinyin]
a good, sensible kid

Synonyms

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乖 (guāi)
儇 (Wu)
𠢕 (ghao⁵) (Teochew)
懂事 (dǒngshì)
懂事體 / 懂事体 (Wu)
捌事 (báik-tâi) (Eastern Min)
明事理 (míngshìlǐ)
曉事 / 晓事 (xiǎoshì)
聽閒話 / 听闲话 (¹thin ⁶ghe-gho₆) (Northern Wu)