huà

speech; talk; conversation

HSK 1 #170

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 170th character
Radical ⾔ (149.6)
Strokes 8
Index # 1296
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

话 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

Stroke order

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Words containing 话

Word Meaning
to lie through one's teeth (idiom); to talk drivel
to lie through one's teeth (idiom); to talk drivel
mythological story; myth
mobile telephone
mobile telephone
automatic telephone exchange
empty promises
to make empty promises
long-winded empty talk
easy for you to say; talk with no real effort
fairy tale
can be trusted; (of sb's words) to count
pep talk
AT&T
your words teach more than ten years of study
to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature
Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects wú yǔ
mobile phone (Tw)
(fig.) adaptable
traditional oral storytelling performance
Ming tale with poems; classical story genre
notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)
no point talking when you don’t get along
hidden barbs in one's words; hostile subtext