HSK 6 · Society

谣言 yáoyán “rumour” in Chinese

Traditional 謠言

What 谣言 means

  1. rumour

How to say 谣言

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale谣yáo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale言yán2nd tone, rising

谣言 in a sentence

  1. 谣言最后被证明是假的。

    Yáoyán zuìhòu bèi zhèngmíng shì jiǎ de.

    The rumour turned out to be false.

    Sentence #336500 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 那个谣言很快传播开来。

    Nà ge yáoyán hěn kuài chuánbō kāilái.

    That rumour spread quickly.

    Sentence #9965488 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我听到了一个很有意思的谣言。

    Wǒ tīngdào le yí ge hěn yǒuyìsi de yáoyán.

    I heard a very interesting rumour.

    Sentence #12596055 from Tatoeba

How 谣言 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 谣 (yáo) with each of its parts in a different colour
谣yáopopular ballad
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 䍃vase · yáoSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 䍃 (yáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with yáo.

The character 言 (yán) with each of its parts in a different colour
言yánwords
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 二two · èr
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 谣言

谣 12 strokes · 言 7 strokes

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

Words related to 谣言

Words with 言

语言yǔyán · language发言fāyán · to make a speech预言yùyán · to predict方言fāngyán · dialect言论yánlùn · speech序言xùyán · preface寓言yùyán · fable不言而喻bùyán'éryù · self-evident总而言之zǒng'éryánzhī · in short

More words: Society & Law

巡逻xúnluó · to patrol严禁yánjìn · to strictly prohibit言论yánlùn · speech演习yǎnxí · military exercise压迫yāpò · to oppress阴谋yīnmóu · plot隐私yǐnsī · privacy仪式yíshì · ceremony

FAQs

谣言 (yáoyán) means “rumour”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yáoyán: yáo with a 2nd tone, then yán with a 2nd 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, 谣言 is written 謠言. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yaoyan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 谣言 from the suggestions. Typing yaoyan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
谣言 is an HSK 6 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.