HSK 5 · Verbs

胡说 húshuō “to talk nonsense” in Chinese

Traditional 胡說

What 胡说 means

  1. to talk nonsense
  2. drivel

How to say 胡说

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale胡hú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale说shuō1st tone, high and level

胡说 in a sentence

  1. 你胡说什么呢？

    Nǐ húshuō shénme ne?

    What nonsense are you talking?

    Sentence #5819692 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你别胡说！

    Nǐ bié húshuō!

    Don’t talk nonsense!

    Sentence #420014 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他胡说八道。

    Tā húshuō bādào.

    He is talking nonsense.

    Sentence #841575 from Tatoeba

How 胡说 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 胡 (hú) with each of its parts in a different colour
胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia
  • 古old · gǔSound part
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with hú.

The character 说 (shuō) with each of its parts in a different colour
说shuōto speak; to talk; to say
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 兑cash · duìSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 兑 (duì) hints at the sound. Compare it with shuō.

How to write 胡说

胡 9 strokes · 说 9 strokes

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

Words related to 胡说

Words with 胡

胡同hútòng · lane胡须húxū · beard胡乱húluàn · carelessly

Words with 说

说shuō · to speak说话shuōhuà · to speak听说tīngshuō · to hear (it said that)说明shuōmíng · to explain小说xiǎoshuō · novel据说jùshuō · it is said that说服shuōfú · to persuade传说chuánshuō · legend说不定shuōbudìng · can’t say for sure学说xuéshuō · theory

More words: Thinking & Talking

光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence归纳guīnà · to sum up喊hǎn · to yell忽视hūshì · to neglect幻想huànxiǎng · to fantasise记忆jìyì · to remember纪念jìniàn · to commemorate假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign

FAQs

胡说 (húshuō) means “to talk nonsense” or “drivel”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it húshuō: hú with a 2nd tone, then shuō with a 1st 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, 胡说 is written 胡說. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hushuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胡说 from the suggestions. Typing hushuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胡说 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.