廢話連篇

简 废话连篇 · 繁 廢話連篇
Mandarin · pinyin fèi huà lián piān

Meanings

  1. a bunch of nonsense
  2. verbose and rambling
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廢
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話
huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
連
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篇
piān · chapter, section, essay, article
废
fèi · abrogate, terminate, discard
话
huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
连
lián · join, connect; continuous; even
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4–4–2–1 · fei4 hua4 lian2 pian1

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