話頭
Chinese edit
spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said |
head; (noun suffix) | ||
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trad. (話頭) | 話 | 頭 | |
simp. (话头) | 话 | 头 |
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Noun edit
話頭
- starting portion of one's speech
- thread of discourse; subject under discussion
- subject for others to gossip about, ridicule, etc.
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Wu) utterance; spoken words; speech; discourse
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話 | 頭 |