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

huǎng huà lie
jiǎng huà a speech; to speak; to talk; to address; CL:個|个[ge4]
講閒 jiǎng xián huà to gossip; to make unfavorable comments
xiàng huà proper; also written 像話|像话
fèi huà to talk at length; to waste one's breath; variant of 廢話|废话[fei4 hua4]
tōng huà to hold a conversation; to talk over the telephone; phone call
通電 tōng diàn huà to phone sb up
yì huà rumor; anecdote (not in the official record); apocryphal story
過頭 guò tóu huà exaggeration
兒 nà huà r genitalia; doohickey; thingumbob
chǒu huà ugly talk; vulgarity; obscenity
說在前頭 chǒu huà shuō zài qián tou let's talk about the unpleasant things first; let's be frank
zhòng huà harsh words
金瓶梅詞 jīn píng méi cí huà Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
短說 cháng huà duǎn shuō to make a long story short (idiom)
長途費 cháng tú huà fèi long distance call charge
長途電 cháng tú diàn huà long-distance call
家常 xián huà jiā cháng to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)
xián huà casual conversation; chat; gossip; to talk about (whatever comes to mind)
閩南 mǐn nán huà Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas
阿比西尼亞官 ā bǐ xī ní yà guān huà Amharic (language)
diàn huà telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number
亭 diàn huà tíng telephone booth
信號 diàn huà xìn hào telephone signal
區碼 diàn huà qū mǎ area code; telephone dialing code