那 nà (specifier) that / the / those (colloquial pr. [nei4]) / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) / then (in that case) syn 哥们 哥們 gē men Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) syn 语音 語音 yǔ yīn speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message syn 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 瘸子 qué zi lame person (colloquial) syn 麻利 má li swift / agile / efficient / quick-witted (colloquial) syn 俗语 俗語 sú yǔ common saying / proverb / colloquial speech syn 读音 讀音 dú yīn pronunciation / literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character 口语 口語 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2] 娃儿 娃兒 wá ér children (colloquial) syn 拔尖 bá jiān top-notch (colloquial) / to push oneself to the front syn 赚头 賺頭 zhuàn tou profit (colloquial) syn 尾巴 wěi ba tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] syn 对不对 對不對 duì bù duì right or wrong? / Is it right? / OK, yes? (colloquial) 青石 qīng shí bluestone / limestone (colloquial) 属相 屬相 shǔ xiàng colloquial term for 生肖[sheng1 xiao4] the animals associated with the years of a 12-year cycle syn 蛋挞 蛋撻 dàn tà egg tart (colloquial pr. [dan4ta3]) 跑调 跑調 pǎo diào to be off-key or out of tune (while singing) (colloquial) 冯梦龙 馮夢龍 féng mèng lóng Feng Menglong (1574-1646), late Ming dynasty novelist writing in colloquial (baihua), author of Stories Old and New 古今小說|古今小说[Gu3 jin1 Xiao3 shuo1] 俩 倆 liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个) / both / some syn 血 xuè blood / colloquial pr. [xie3] / CL:滴[di1],片[pian4] syn 落 lào colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds syn 蹭 céng to rub against / to walk slowly / to freeload (colloquial) syn 蹭 cèng to rub against / to walk slowly / (coll.) to freeload syn 仨 sā three (colloquial equivalent of 三個|三个) syn 挞 撻 tà (bound form) to whip / to flog / (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. [ta3]) 大白话 大白話 dà bái huà colloquial speech 惯用语 慣用語 guàn yòng yǔ commonly used phrase / idiom / colloquial usage 白读 白讀 bái dú colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character 较比 較比 jiào bǐ comparatively (colloquial) / fairly / quite / rather / relatively syn 忙乎 máng hū to be busy (colloquial) syn 吃白食 chī bái shí to eat without paying / to freeload 蹭吃 cèng chī to freeload for food 白吃白喝 bái chī bái hē to freeload 吃白饭 吃白飯 chī bái fàn to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload 胡适 胡適 hú shì Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文[bai2 hua4 wen2] 乖顺 乖順 guāi shùn obedient (colloquial) 卬 áng I (regional colloquial) / me / variant of 昂[ang2] 反文旁 fǎn wén páng (colloquial) grapheme 攵 (variant form of Kangxi radical 66, 攴) 呼呼哱 hū hū bō colloquial word for hoopoe bird (Upupa epops) 土狗 tǔ gǒu native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]) 坨儿 坨兒 tuó r classifier for lumps of soft things (colloquial) 就晚了 jiù wǎn le then it's too late (colloquial) 打兑 打兌 dǎ duì to arrange (colloquial) / to transfer creditor's rights (in a debt case) 推搪 tuī táng to offer excuses (colloquial) / to stall 捞什子 撈什子 lāo shí zi encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance 月头儿 月頭兒 yuè tóu r start of the month (colloquial) 横直 橫直 héng zhí (colloquial) whatever / come what may 秃瓢 禿瓢 tū piáo bald head (colloquial) 粘涎 zhān xián saliva / slobber / (colloquial) useless talk / drivel 说摞 說摞 shuō luò to confess / to let out the truth (colloquial) 阿堵 ē dǔ (literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[Liu4 Chao2]) this / (abbr. for 阿堵物[e1 du3 wu4]) money 咸盐 鹹鹽 xián yán salt (colloquial) / table salt 麻力 má li swift / agile / efficient / quick witted (colloquial) / also written 麻利[ma2 li5] 老骨头 老骨頭 lǎo gǔ tou weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently) 屁颠屁颠 屁顛屁顛 pì diān pì diān lit. jolting buttocks / (colloquial intensifier) groveling / eager / compliant / smug 文读 文讀 wén dú literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character 美帝 měi dì (in early CCP propaganda) United States (as an imperialist nation) / (in more recent times) a neutral, colloquial term for the United States 咖哩 kā lǐ (Tw) (loanword) curry / colloquial pr. [ga1li3] or [ga1li2] 