huà
xiá
zi

dialect
noun
informal

Meaning of 话匣子

话匣子 means gramophone; phonograph; (by extension) radio; chatterbox; gabby person; someone who talks too much. Pronounced huà xiá zi.

  • gramophone; phonograph; (by extension) radio
  • chatterbox; gabby person; someone who talks too much
  • (in the idiom 打开话匣子) to start talking endlessly; to open the floodgates of speech

Definitions & Examples

ye
jiā
hái
liú
zhe
tái
lǎo
huà
xiá
zi
 

Grandpa still keeps an old gramophone at home.

Shàng
shì
sān
shí
nián
dài
 
huà
xiá
zi
shì
han
 

In the 1930s, radios were quite rare items.