白话

白話
báihuà
  1. spoken language
  2. vernacular

CEDICT

  1. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) Pe̍h-ōe-jī (a Latin alphabet-based orthography for Southern Min); POJ
  2. (chiefly Guangdong, Guangxi, rare in Hong Kong) Yue; Cantonese
  3. Pe̍h-ōe-jī (a Latin alphabet-based orthography for Southern Min); POJ
  4. Yue; Cantonese
  5. empty words; meaningless talk
  6. vernacular Chinese (as opposed to Classical Chinese); plain language

Wiktionary

  1. 现代汉语的书面语言，相对于文言文而言。
  2. 无关紧要的事。
  3. 没有根据的话。

重編國語辭典

  1. 本地话，当地方言
  2. 没有根据的话语
  3. 无关紧要的事情
  4. 现代汉语的书面语言
  5. 白话字
  6. 粤语，广东话
  7. 谚语；俗语

維基詞典

Homographs

白话 báihua

Entry Composition

1 白 bái
  1. white
  2. snowy
  3. pure
  4. bright
  5. empty
  6. blank
  7. plain
  8. clear
  9. to make clear
  10. in vain
  11. gratuitous
  12. free of charge
  13. reactionary
  14. anti-communist
  15. funeral
  16. to stare coldly
  17. to write wrong character
  18. to state
  19. to explain
  20. vernacular
  21. spoken lines in opera
=2 话 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
=2 话 huà old variant of 话 huà

Containing this entry

白话文 báihuàwén writings in the vernacular
白话诗 báihuàshī free verse in the vernacular
空口白话 kōngkǒubáihuà empty promises
白话字 báihuàzì
空口讲白话 kōngkǒujiǎngbáihuà

Related entries

语声 yǔshēng
  1. spoken language
  2. sound of speaking
口语 kǒuyǔ
  1. colloquial speech
  2. spoken language
  3. vernacular language
  4. slander
  5. gossip

classifier: 門

口语比书面语更贴近生活。

Spoken language is closer to life than written language.

Source: Tatoeba

土话 tǔhuà
  1. vernacular
  2. slang
  3. dialect
  4. patois
白 bái
  1. white
  2. snowy
  3. pure
  4. bright
  5. empty
  6. blank
  7. plain
  8. clear
  9. to make clear
  10. in vain
  11. gratuitous
  12. free of charge
  13. reactionary
  14. anti-communist
  15. funeral
  16. to stare coldly
  17. to write wrong character
  18. to state
  19. to explain
  20. vernacular
  21. spoken lines in opera
你沒白死。

Your death was not in vain.

Source: Tatoeba