pai-hua
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pai-hua
< Chinese báihuà, equivalent to bái plain, pure, white + huà word, talk
Example Sentences
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Editor Snow admits his translations are very free, admits also that he has freely used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
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