话 (huà): meaning and stroke order
话 (huà) means dialect, language, spoken words, speech, talk, words, conversation, what sb said.
话
- Simplified
- 话
- Traditional
- 話, 諙
- Pinyin
- huà
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Stroke order of 话
话
- huà dialect; language
- huà old variant of 話|话[hua4]
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 話
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Meaning of 话
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huà
Traditional 話
- dialect
- language
- spoken words
- speech
- talk
- words
- conversation
- what sb said
- CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
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huà
Traditional 諙
- old variant of 話|话[hua4]
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 话
- 好话 hǎo huà friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf
- 神话 shén huà legend; fairy tale
- 老话 lǎo huà an old saying
- 说话 shuō huà to speak; to say
- 电话 diàn huà telephone; CL:部[bu4]
- 的话 de huà if (coming after a conditional clause)
- 普通话 pǔ tōng huà Mandarin (common language); Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language)
- 风凉话 fēng liáng huà sneering; sarcasm
- 话题 huà tí subject (of a talk or conversation); topic
- 换句话说 huàn jù huà shuō in other words
话 in our stories
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回家的路上，刘阳看见卖西瓜的，一句话也没说。
huí jiā de lù shàng Liú Yáng kànjiàn mài xīguā de yí jù huà yě méi shuō
On the way home Liu Yang sees the watermelon seller and doesn't say a word.
From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
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两个人都有点儿紧张，话不多。
liǎng gè rén dōu yǒu diǎnr jǐnzhāng huà bù duō
They were both a bit nervous and didn't say much.
From the story The first date HSK 2
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罗丹一下子紧张了，准备好的话一句也想不起来了。
Luó Dān yíxiàzi jǐnzhāng le zhǔnbèi hǎo de huà yí jù yě xiǎng bu qǐlái le
Luo Dan suddenly gets nervous and can't remember a single word she prepared.
From the story The honest answer HSK 3
Stories using 话
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
- The first date HSK 2
- The honest answer HSK 3
- Three circles HSK 4
- Twelve hours apart HSK 4
- The banquet that never ended HSK 6
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).