After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「說長話短」. Meaning and usage are below.
Discover the idiom 「說長話短」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Talking about the good and bad of others. Same as “gossip”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuō zhǎng huà duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syut3 cheung4/jeung2 wa6 dyun2
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