白話

白话
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. 現代漢語的書面語言，相對於文言文而言。
  2. 無關緊要的事。
  3. 沒有根據的話。

重編國語辭典

  1. 本地話，當地方言
  2. 沒有根據的話語
  3. 無關緊要的事情
  4. 現代漢語的書面語言
  5. 白話字
  6. 粵語，廣東話
  7. 諺語；俗語

維基詞典

Homographs

白話 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 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

白話文 báihuàwén writings in the vernacular
白話詩 báihuàshī free verse in the vernacular
空口白話 kōngkǒubáihuà empty promises
白話字 báihuàzì
空口講白話 kōngkǒujiǎngbáihuà

Related entries

語聲 yǔshēng
  1. spoken language
  2. sound of speaking
口語 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

土話 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