長話

Chinese

		long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop	spoken words; speech; dialect spoken words; speech; dialect; language; talk; conversation; what someone said
trad. (長話)		長	話
simp. (长话)		长	话

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chánghuà

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chánghuà
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chánghuà
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²-hua⁴
    • Yale: cháng-hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charnghuah
    • Palladius: чанхуа (čanxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ xu̯ä⁵¹/

Noun

長話

1. long explanation
2. (telephony) long-distance call

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “long-distance call”): 市話／市话 (shìhuà)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
長	話
なが Grade: 2	はなし > ばなし Grade: 2
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 長話 – see the following entry.

【ながばなし】 [noun] talking for a long time; lengthy rambling [verb] to talk for a long time

(This term, 長話, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)