废话
fèi​huà HSK7

nonsense

废话 (廢話) fèi​huà
nonsense noun
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words

别说废话了，我们还是谈正事吧。

bié shuō fèi​huà le, wǒ​men hái​shi tán zhèng​shì ba.

Stop talking nonsense; let's get down to business.

no kidding noun
a sarcastic expression used to respond to something obvious; You don't say!

“你会说中文吗？”“废话，我是在中国长大的。”

“ nǐ huì shuō Zhōng​wén ma?”“ fèi​huà, wǒ shì zài Zhōng​guó zhǎng​dà de.”

"Can you speak Chinese?" "Of course, I grew up in China."

Frequency
Movie subtitles
38.8 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
7.22 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)