歇后语 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 歇後語 xiēhòuyǔ ㄒㄧㄝ ㄏㄡˋ ㄩˇ anapodoton (a 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) Character by character 歇(xiē)rest 后(hòu)surname Hou 语(yǔ)dialect A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0