telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number

dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word

to make a telephone call

to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly

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

to talk (with sb); to have a conversation; talk; conversation; CL:次[ci4]

a speech; to speak; to talk; to address; CL:個|个[ge4]

joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd

to talk (with sb); dialogue; conversation

truth

to hold a conversation; to talk over the telephone; phone call

to do what one is told; obedient

to phone sb up

legend; fairy tale; myth; mythology

lie

profanity; obscene language; speaking rudely

disparaging remarks; unkind things said about sb

children's fairy tales

bullshit; nonsense

to reply

lie; false words; nonsense; CL:篇[pian1]

friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf; a good word; kind words; words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions

to ask sb a question; question

foolish talk; nonsense

to pass on a story; to communicate a message

a lie; untrue statement; misstatement

foolish talk; nonsense

nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash

Cantonese language

casual conversation; chat; gossip; to talk about (whatever comes to mind)

unreasonable; shocking; outrageous

long-distance phone call

(to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind

crazy talk; ravings; nonsense

public phone; CL:部[bu4]

whisperings; private words; confidences; sweet nothings

an old saying

to do as promised; to be as good as one's word; to honor one's word; to mean what one says

to leave a message

Putonghua; standard Mandarin

to chat; to gossip

vulgar language; coarse language

to talk; to get into conversation with; to send word

sneering; sarcasm; cynical remarks

to be honest; to tell the truth; to be frank

empty talk; bunk; malicious gossip

to reply; to answer

notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old); a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties