打官話 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 打官话 dǎguānhuà ㄉㄚˇ ㄍㄨㄢ ㄏㄨㄚˋ to talk officiously to assume the air of a functionary to talk in official jargon Character by character 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 官(guān)surname Guan 話(huà)dialect A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0