好話

See also: 好话

Chinese

		good; well; be fond of	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (好話)		好	話
simp. (好话)		好	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎohuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² waa⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hó-fa
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hó-ōe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎohuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎohuà
    • Wade–Giles: hao³-hua⁴
    • Yale: hǎu-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haohuah
    • Palladius: хаохуа (xaoxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou² waa⁶
    • Yale: hóu wah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou² waa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou² wa⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ waː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hó-fa
    • Hakka Romanization System: ho` fa
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ho³ fa⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ho³¹ fa⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: hó-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoyoe
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ue³³/

Noun

好話

1. fine words; words of praise, or comfort (Classifier: 句)

   好話說盡，壞事做絕 [MSC, trad.]
   好话说尽，坏事做绝 [MSC, simp.]

   hǎohuà shuō jìn, huàishì zuò jué [Pinyin]

   to say as many fine words as one can and do as many bad deeds as one is able to

2. good advice (Classifier: 句)
3. plea; apology (Classifier: 句)

Usage notes

Often preceded by the verb 說／说 (shuō), "to speak".