huà

speech; talk; conversation

Character data

Radical ⾔ (149.6)
Strokes 13
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

話 huà
  1. 1. speech
  2. 2. talk
  3. 3. conversation
  4. 4. spoken words
  5. 5. words
  6. 6. what sb said
  7. 7. language
  8. 8. dialect
  9. 9. old variant of huà
  10. 10. CL zhǒng,,,kǒu,fān

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Words containing 話

Word Meaning
walkie-talkie; portable radio transmitter
malicious words; unpleasant talk
foreign languages
talking in one's sleep; words spoken during sleep
colloquial speech
liar's dice (dice game)
cliché; polite phrase; conventional greetings
kind words; a good word; words spoken on sb's behalf
Mandarin; bureaucratic language; "officialese"
polite formula; conventional greeting
Hakka dialect
words of politeness; talk with propriety; decorous talking
truth
to tell the truth; to tell it as it is
collect call
collect call
dialogue
dialog box (computing)
conversation class
intercom
nonsense; shit
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words
a bunch of nonsense; verbose and rambling
Cantonese language