土話

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (土話)		土	話
simp. (土话)		土	话

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): tǔhuà

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): тухуа (tuhua, II-III)
Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thú-fa
Jin (Wiktionary): tu² hua³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thó͘-ōe / thó͘-ōa

(Teochew, Peng'im): tou² uê⁷

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tǔhuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tǔhuà
  - Wade–Giles: tʻu³-hua⁴
  - Yale: tǔ-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuuhuah
  - Palladius: тухуа (tuxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: тухуа (tuhua, II-III)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou⁵¹ xua⁴⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
  - Yale: tóu wah / tóu wá
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tou² waa⁶ / tou² waa^6-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: tou² wa⁶ / tou² wa^6-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ waː²²/, /tʰou̯³⁵ waː²²⁻³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thú-fa
  - Hakka Romanization System: tu` fa
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tu³ fa⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰu³¹ fa⁵⁵/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: tu² hua³
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰxu⁵³ xua⁴⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘-ōe
  - Tâi-lô: thóo-uē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tofoe
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue²²/
  - IPA (Singapore): /tʰɔ⁴²⁻²⁴ ue²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó͘-ōa
  - Tâi-lô: thóo-uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tofoa
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ua²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tou² uê⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thóu uē
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou⁵²⁻³⁵ ue¹¹/

Noun

土話

local, colloquial expressions; local dialect
羊城土話／羊城土话 [Cantonese] ― joeng⁴ sing⁴ tou² waa^6-2 [Jyutping] ― Canton dialect
(Hokkien) rough and blunt speech

Synonyms

(local, colloquial expressions): (Xiang) 土話子／土话子

Derived terms