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平話
简 平话 · 繁 平話Mandarin · pinyin píng huà
Meanings
- storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
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2–4 · ping2 hua4
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noun
- local speech; plain speech; colloquial dialect — (Eastern Min) Eastern Min; Min Dong (a lect which is spoken in and around Fuzhou)
- local speech; plain speech; colloquial dialect — Pinghua (a group of Chinese dialects spoken in Guangxi)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 評話 /评话 (pínghuà)
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