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廢話

简废话 · 繁廢話

Mandarin · pinyin fèi huà

nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)

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廢: Look up this written character
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
废: fèi · abrogate, terminate, discard
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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4–4 · fei4 hua4

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fai3 waa2

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noun

rubbish; worthless words; tautology, pleonasm, superfluous words

verb

to speak worthless words

intj

(exclamation) duh; no shit; no shit, Sherlock; you don't say

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