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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 废话

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
废话 fèi huà - nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
- You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
5 7 1,973 10,974 5,935

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fèi- to abolish
- to abandon
- to abrogate
- to discard
- to depose
- to oust
- crippled
- abandoned
- waste
fèi- variant of 廢|废[fei4]
- disabled
huà- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
huà- old variant of 話|话[hua4]

Other Words Containing 废话

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
废话 5 7 1,973 10,974 5,935