像话

像話

xiànghuà

adjective #17,574

Meanings

1 proper
2 appropriate
3 reasonable

Characters

to resemble; like

Literally "resembling proper speech" — meaning proper or reasonable.

Examples

你这样做太不像话了！

Nǐ zhèyàng zuò tài bù xiànghuà le!

What you did is really outrageous!

他说的话越来越不像话。

Tā shuō de huà yuèláiyuè bù xiànghuà.

What he says is getting more and more outrageous.

Tips

usage

像话 is almost always used in the negative: 不像话 or 太不像话了. It's rare to hear someone say something IS 像话. Think of it as a word that exists mainly to be negated.

Stroke Order

像 xiàng

话 huà