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"groundless rumor" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
蜚语 蜚語 fēi yǔ groundless rumor / unfounded gossip
Chinese Pinyin Translation
谣言 謠言 yáo yán rumor syn
传言 傳言 chuán yán rumor / hearsay syn
传闻 傳聞 chuán wén rumor syn
风声 風聲 fēng shēng sound of the wind / rumor / talk / news / reputation syn
流言 liú yán rumor / gossip / to spread rumors syn
谣传 謠傳 yáo chuán rumor syn
莫须有 莫須有 mò xū yǒu groundless / baseless syn
道听途说 道聽途說 dào tīng tú shuō gossip / hearsay / rumor syn
杞人忧天 杞人憂天 qǐ rén yōu tiān man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom) / groundless fears syn
造谣 造謠 zào yáo to start a rumor syn
虚惊 虛驚 xū jīng false alarm / panic rumor / CL:場|场[chang2] syn
闲言碎语 閑言碎語 xián yán suì yǔ idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor
捕风捉影 捕風捉影 bǔ fēng zhuō yǐng lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom) / fig. groundless accusations / to act on hearsay evidence syn
不攻自破 bù gōng zì pò (of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc) / to be discredited syn
辟谣 闢謠 pì yáo to refute a rumor / to deny syn
杞人之忧 杞人之憂 qǐ rén zhī yōu lit. the fear held by a man of 杞[Qi3] that the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. groundless fears
杞国忧天 杞國憂天 qǐ guó yōu tiān man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom) / groundless fears
三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ three men talking makes a tiger (idiom) / repeated rumor becomes a fact
劈空扳害 pī kōng bān hài damaged by groundless slander (idiom)
站不住脚 站不住腳 zhàn bu zhù jiǎo ill-founded / groundless
杞人忧天 杞人憂天 qǐ rén - yōu tiān lit. like the man of 杞[Qi3] who feared the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. to entertain groundless fears syn
逸话 逸話 yì huà rumor / anecdote (not in the official record) / apocryphal story
讹传 訛傳 é chuán unfounded rumor / to pass on a mistaken belief to others
黄谣 黃謠 huáng yáo sexual rumor (abbr. for 黃色謠言|黄色谣言[huang2 se4 yao2 yan2])
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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