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
mobile telephone
mobile telephone
automatic telephone exchange
empty promises
to make empty promises
empty talk; bunk; malicious gossip
long-winded empty talk
easy for you to say; all talk, no hardship
children's fairy tales
fairy tale
joke; to laugh at; to mock
to reply; to answer
can be trusted; (of sb's words) to count
vulgar language (esp. scatological insults)
pep talk
AT&T
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
obedient; to do what one is told
to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash
tea party
dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature
Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects wú yǔ
mobile phone (Tw)
jargon; language of the trade