话
dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #244 U+8BDD
How 话 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A spoken 讠 tongue 舌; 舌 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
talk · Heisig RSH #354
words + 舌 tongue
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 话
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国话 | Zhōng guó huà | (spoken) Chinese language |
| 行动电话 | xíng dòng diàn huà | mobile phone (Tw) |
| 大白话 | dà bái huà | colloquial speech |
| 无线电话 | wú xiàn diàn huà | radio telephony; wireless telephone |
| 上海话 | Shàng hǎi huà | Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect |
| 话事人 | huà shì rén | (coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss; the big cheese; the top dog |
| 电话机 | diàn huà jī | telephone set |
| 电话会 | diàn huà huì | conference call; teleconference |
| 空口白话 | kōng kǒu bái huà | empty promises |
| 白话文 | bái huà wén | writings in the vernacular |
| 不成话 | bù chéng huà | see 不像話|不像话[bu4 xiang4 hua4] |
| 心里话 | xīn li huà | (to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind |
| 外国话 | wài guó huà | foreign languages |
| 电话门 | Diàn huà Mén | "Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records |
| 公用电话 | gōng yòng diàn huà | public phone; CL:部[bu4] |
| 一家人不说两家话 | yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà | lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from … |
| 打电话 | dǎ diàn huà | to make a telephone call |
| 无话不说 | wú huà bù shuō | (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything |
| 台山话 | Tái shān huà | Taishanese, a language of the Yue language group 粵語|粤语[Yue4 yu3] spoken in Jiangmen 江門|江门[… |
| 通电话 | tōng diàn huà | to phone sb up |