一席話

一席话
yīxíhuà
  1. the content of a conversation
  2. words
  3. remarks

CEDICT

a bit of a conversation

Wiktionary

一番話。

重編國語辭典

一番話

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=2 席 xí
  1. woven mat
  2. seat
  3. banquet
  4. place in a democratic assembly
  5. classifier for banquets, conversations etc
=2 席 xí woven mat (variant of 席 xí)
3 話 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番

Containing this entry

聽君一席話，勝讀十年書 tīngjūnyīxíhuà,shèngdúshíniánshū listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)

Related entries

字句 zìjù
  1. words
  2. expressions
  3. writing
言 yán
  1. words
  2. speech
  3. to say
  4. to talk
他们永不言弃。

They never give up.

Source: Tatoeba

言語 yányǔ
  1. words
  2. speech
  3. (spoken) language
言语无法形容我有多爱你。

Words cannot describe how much I love you.

Source: Tatoeba

言辭 yáncí
  1. words
  2. expression
  3. what one says
話語 huàyǔ
  1. words
  2. speech
  3. utterance
  4. discourse
严格地讲,这句话语法上有错误。

Strictly speaking, this sentence is grammatically incorrect.

Source: Tatoeba

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