| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 名言 | 名言 | míngyán | - saying - famous remark |
| 成语 | 成語 | chéngyǔ | - Chinese set expression, often made up of 4 characters or two couplets of 4 characters each, often alluding to a story or historical quotation - idiom - proverb - saying - adage - set expression - CL:條|条[tiao2],本[ben3],句[ju4] |
| 俗话 | 俗話 | súhuà | - common saying - proverb |
| 俗语 | 俗語 | súyǔ | - common saying - proverb - colloquial speech |
| 俗谚 | 俗諺 | súyàn | - common saying - proverb |
| 俚谚 | 俚諺 | lǐyàn | - common saying - folk proverb |
| 古谚 | 古諺 | gǔyàn | - ancient proverb - old saying |
| 名句 | 名句 | míngjù | - famous saying - celebrated phrase |
| 常言 | 常言 | chángyán | - common saying |
| 本来 | 本來 | běnlái | - original - originally - at first - it goes without saying - of course |
| 民谚 | 民諺 | mínyàn | - folk saying - proverb |
| 尽言 | 盡言 | jìnyán | - saying everything - to speak out fully |
| 习语 | 習語 | xíyǔ | - common saying - idiom |
| 农谚 | 農諺 | nóngyàn | - farmers' saying |
| 里谚 | 里諺 | lǐyàn | - common saying - folk proverb |
| 不待说 | 不待說 | bùdàishuō | - needless to say - it goes without saying |
| 口头禅 | 口頭禪 | kǒutóuchán | - lit. Zen saying repeated as cant - fig. popular saying - catchphrase - cliché |
| 歇后语 | 歇後語 | xiēhòuyǔ | - saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part |
| 不言而喻 | 不言而喻 | bùyánéryù | - it goes without saying - it is self-evident |
| 心口不一 | 心口不一 | xīnkǒubùyī | - heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself - saying one thing but meaning sth different |
| 至理名言 | 至理名言 | zhìlǐmíngyán | - wise saying - words of wisdom |
| 表里不一 | 表裡不一 | biǎolǐbùyī | - outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems - saying one thing but meaning sth different |
| 言不由衷 | 言不由衷 | yánbùyóuzhōng | - to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek - saying one thing but meaning sth different |
| 显而易见 | 顯而易見 | xiǎnéryìjiàn | - clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously - clearly - it goes without saying |
| 说是一回事，做又是另外一回事 | 說是一回事，做又是另外一回事 | shuōshìyīhuíshì,zuòyòushìlìngwàiyīhuíshì | - Saying is one thing, doing quite another (idiom) |
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