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huà

dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

Measure words: 种 (zhong3), 席 (xi2), 句 (ju4), 口 (kou3), 番 (fan1)

Examples

话在嘴边

It's on the tip of my tongue.

哪儿的话！

Don't mention it.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.