话(huà)

HSK 18 strokesTrad. 話

dialect

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Character information

Pinyin
huà
Meaning
dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:种,席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 1
Traditional
話

Origin & structure

Where 话 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰讠舌

A spoken 讠 tongue 舌; 舌 also provides the pronunciation

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

讠yán舌shé

Parts are arranged left to right.

Traditional form 話: A spoken 言 tongue 舌; 舌 also provides the pronunciation

How to write 话 step by step

8 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 话

Common words using 话 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

yī一jù句huà话
HSK 5

in a word; in short

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sú俗huà话
HSK 7-9

common saying; proverb

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bù不xiàng像huà话
HSK 7-9

unreasonable

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sú俗huà话shuō说
HSK 7-9

as the proverb says

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èr二huà话

objection; differing opinion

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jiā佳huà话

story or deed that captures the imagination and is spread far and wide

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yī一xí席huà话

the content of a conversation

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bù不zài在huà话xià下

to be nothing difficult

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一七三上下不东两

From 话’s common words

一句俗不像说二佳

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