"Rumor" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 谣言 | yáo yán | rumor |   |
| 传闻 | chuán wén | rumor | |
| 传言 | chuán yán | rumor / hearsay | |
| 风声 | fēng shēng | sound of the wind / rumor / talk / news / reputation | |
| 流言 | liú yán | rumor / gossip / to spread rumors | |
| 谣传 | yáo chuán | rumor | |
| 道听途说 | dào tīng tú shuō | gossip / hearsay / rumor | |
| 逸话 | yì huà | rumor / anecdote (not in the official record) / apocryphal story | |
| 辟谣 | pì yáo | to refute a rumor / to deny | |
| 造谣 | zào yáo | to start a rumor | |
| 虚惊 | xū jīng | false alarm / panic rumor / CL:場|场[chang2] | |
| 不攻自破 | bù gōng zì pò | (of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc) / to be discredited | |
| 闲言碎语 | xián yán suì yǔ | idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor | |
| 蜚语 | fēi yǔ | groundless rumor / unfounded gossip | |
| 三人成虎 | sān rén chéng hǔ | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom) / repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
| 讹传 | é chuán | unfounded rumor / to pass on a mistaken belief to others | |
| 黄谣 | huáng yáo | sexual rumor (abbr. for 黃色謠言|黄色谣言[huang2 se4 yao2 yan2]) | |
