私話

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (私話)		私	話
simp. (私话)		私	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīhuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sir-ōe / su-ōe / su-ōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīhuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihhuà
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-hua⁴
    • Yale: sz̄-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syhuah
    • Palladius: сыхуа (syxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: sir-uē
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ ue⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-ōe
    • Tâi-lô: su-uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su'oe
    • IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ ue³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² ue²²/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-ōa
    • Tâi-lô: su-uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su'oa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ ua³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² ua²²/

Noun

私話

1. private words; message not told to other people

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (私話):

• → Japanese: 私(し)話(わ) (shiwa)