话多不如话少，话少不如话好。

It's better to speak less than to speak too much, and it's better to speak well than to speak too little.

Traditional

話多不如話少，話少不如話好。

Pinyin

Huà duō bùrú huà shǎo, huà shǎo bùrú huà hǎo.

Bopomofo

ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄕㄠˇ，ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄕㄠˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄏㄠˇ。

Where this sentence comes from

This sentence is from Tatoeba, contributed by Martha, with the English translation by weihaiping. It is used here under CC BY 2.0 FR.

Tatoeba writes this sentence in traditional characters: 話多不如話少，話少不如話好。 Chinese Boost builds every reading of a sentence from simplified characters, so it has been converted here.

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