HSK 5 · Verbs

废话 fèihuà “nonsense” in Chinese

Traditional 廢話

What 废话 means

  1. nonsense
  2. rubbish
  3. superfluous words
  4. You don’t say!
  5. No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

How to say 废话

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale废fèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale话huà4th tone, falling

废话 in a sentence

  1. 别说废话了，你知道那是不可能的。

    Bié shuō fèihuà le, nǐ zhīdao nà shì bù kěnéng de.

    Stop talking nonsense. You know that’s impossible.

    Sentence #10287439 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 废话少说，说重点。

    Fèihuà shǎo shuō, shuō zhòngdiǎn.

    Cut the small talk and get to the point.

    Sentence #7484365 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 别听他的，他在说废话。

    Bié tīng tā de, tā zài shuō fèihuà.

    Don’t listen to him. He’s talking nonsense.

    Sentence #772030 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 废话 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 废 (fèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
废fèito abolish
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 发to issue · fāSound part
The character 话 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
话huàdialect
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yán
  • 舌tongue · shé

Memory aidSpeech 讠 from the tongue 舌: talk, words.

How to write 废话

废 8 strokes · 话 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

废话 (fèihuà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 废话 (fèihuà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 废话

Words with 废

废墟fèixū · ruins作废zuòfèi · to become invalid废除fèichú · to abolish废寝忘食fèiqǐnwàngshí · so absorbed one forgets to eat and sleep半途而废bàntú'érfèi · to give up halfway

Words with 话

电话diànhuà · telephone打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call说话shuōhuà · to speak的话dehuà · if (ends a conditional clause)对话duìhuà · dialogue笑话xiàohua · joke普通话pǔtōnghuà · Mandarin实话shíhuà · truth神话shénhuà · legend话题huàtí · subject (of a talk or conversation)

More words: Thinking & Talking

答应dāying · to agree打听dǎting · to ask about反映fǎnyìng · to reflect发言fāyán · to make a speech分别fēnbié · to part分析fēnxī · to analyse讽刺fěngcì · to satirise否定fǒudìng · to negate

FAQs

废话 (fèihuà) means “nonsense” or “rubbish”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it fèihuà: fèi with a 4th tone, then huà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 废话 is written 廢話. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type feihua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 废话 from the suggestions. Typing feihua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
废话 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.