Chinese symbol for “gossip”
聊天
liáo tiān
to chat; to gossip
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gossip is 聊天 (liáo tiān), defined as: to chat; to gossip.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “gossip”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 道听途说 (道聽途說) | dào tīng tú shuō | gossip; hearsay; rumor |
| 唠 (嘮) | lào | to gossip; to chat (dialect) |
| 说话 (說話) | shuō huà | to speak; to say |
| 嚼舌根 | jiáo shé gēn | to gossip; to argue unnecessarily |
| 嚼舌头 (嚼舌頭) | jiáo shé tóu | to gossip; to argue unnecessarily |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 聊天.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无聊 (無聊) | wú liáo | bored; boring |
| 聊天室 | liáo tiān shì | chat room |
| 闲聊 (閒聊) | xián liáo | to chat; casual conversation |
| 裸聊 | luǒ liáo | to chat naked (online) |
| 民不聊生 | mín bù liáo shēng | (idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史记 (Shǐ jì)) |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 每天 | měi tiān | every day |
| 明天 | míng tiān | tomorrow |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gossip”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.