"Speaker" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box
 yáng shēng qì speaker
 yì zhǎng chairman (of a legislative assembly) / speaker
 yǎn shuō zhě orator / speaker
 yǔ zhě (linguistics) speaker
 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5]
 xīng xing orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin
齿 kǒu chǐ líng lì eloquent and fluent speaker (idiom) / grandiloquence / the gift of the gab
 zhuō zuǐ bèn shé lit. clumsy mouth and broken tongue (idiom) / awkward speaker
 bèn zuǐ zhuō shé clumsy in speech / poor speaker
 guó huì yì zhǎng chair (or president, speaker etc) of national congress
西 Pèi luò xī Nancy Pelosi (1940-), US Democrat politician from California, speaker of US House of Representatives 2007-2011 and 2019-
 bù yǐ rén fèi yán not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects) / to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers
 yǐ rén fèi yán to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects) / to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case
 yán zhě wú zuì , wén zhě zú jiè don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom) / an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously
 gǔ gěng fish bone / bone stuck in the throat / sth one feels obliged to speak out about / candid speaker
齿 tiě chǐ tóng yá clever and eloquent speaker (idiom)
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