huà

speech, talk, language; dialect

DEFINITIONS

話 huà
  • dialect
  • language
  • spoken words
  • speech
  • talk
  • words
  • conversation
  • what sb said
  • CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
  • old variant of 話|话[hua4]

STROKES

WORDS

移動式電 yí dòng shì diàn huà mobile telephone
移動電 yí dòng diàn huà mobile telephone
程控電 chéng kòng diàn huà automatic telephone exchange
空口白 kōng kǒu bái huà empty promises
空口說白 kōng kǒu shuō bái huà to make empty promises
kōng huà empty talk; bunk; malicious gossip
連篇 kōng huà lián piān long-winded empty talk
站著說不腰疼 zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom); to be an armchair expert; to blabber on
tóng huà children's fairy tales
故事 tóng huà gù shì fairy tale
xiào huà joke; jest; CL:個|个[ge4]; to laugh at; to mock
dá huà to reply; to answer
suàn huà (of sb's words) to count; can be trusted
cū huà vulgar language (esp. scatological insults); uncultured speech
精神訓 jīng shén xùn huà pep talk
美國電電報公司 měi guó diàn huà diàn bào gōng sī AT&T
聽君一席,勝讀十年書 tīng jūn yī xí huà , shèng dú shí nián shū listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
tīng huà to do what one is told; obedient
聽聲,鑼鼓聽音 tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
hú huà nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash
會 chá huà huì tea party
葷笑 hūn xiào huà dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature
蘇州 sū zhōu huà Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects 吳語|吴语[Wu2 yu3]
行動電 xíng dòng diàn huà mobile phone (Tw)
háng huà jargon; language of the trade