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套话
套話
tàohuà
1. polite talk
2. conventional greetings

Character Breakdown

套
tào
case, cover, envelope, wrapper
HSK 5 10 丶
话
huà
talk, speech; language, dialect
HSK 1 8 丶

Compound Words (2)

客套话
kètàohuà
conventional greeting
话里套话
huàlǐtàohuà
to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information

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Chinese