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Mythic Mandarin

的话 (de huà): meaning and stroke order

的话 (de huà) means if (coming after a conditional clause).

的话

Simplified
的话
Traditional
的話
Pinyin
de huà

Stroke order of 的话

的

  • de of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  • dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
  • dí really and truly
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

话

  • huà dialect; language
  • huà old variant of 話|话[hua4]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 話

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 的话

  1. de huà Traditional 的話
    • if (coming after a conditional clause)

Radicals of the characters

的
Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 8 strokes · 白 on the left, 勺 on the right
话
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 讠 on the left, 舌 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

的话 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 赵王不听。她只好又说：“大王一定要用他的话，万一他打了败仗，请不要连累我们全家。”赵王答应了。

    Zhào Wáng bù tīng tā zhǐhǎo yòu shuō dàwáng yídìng yào yòng tā dehuà wànyī tā dǎ le bàizhàng qǐng búyào liánlei wǒmen quánjiā Zhào Wáng dāying le

    The king would not listen. So she said: "If Your Majesty is determined to use him, then should he lose, please do not punish our whole family." The king agreed.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 的话

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).