話
See also: 话
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Translingual
Han character
話 (radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹十口 (YRHJR), four-corner 02664, composition ⿰言舌)
References
- KangXi: page 1158, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35441
- Dae Jaweon: page 1624, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3965, character 6
- Unihan data for U+8A71
Chinese
| trad. | 話 | |
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| simp. | 话 | |
| alt. forms | 䛡 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 話 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 咶 | *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd |
| 話 | *ɡroːds |
| 刮 | *kroːd |
| 鴰 | *kroːd, *koːd |
| 趏 | *kroːd, *kʰroːd |
| 舌 | *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed |
| 姡 | *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd |
| 頢 | *ɡroːd, *koːd |
| 括 | *koːd |
| 活 | *koːd, *ɡoːd |
| 适 | *koːd, *kʰoːd |
| 栝 | *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 佸 | *koːd, *ɡoːd |
| 髺 | *koːd |
| 聒 | *koːd |
| 銛 | *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 葀 | *koːd |
| 懖 | *koːd |
| 筈 | *koːd, *kʰoːd |
| 萿 | *koːd |
| 蛞 | *kʰoːd |
| 闊 | *kʰoːd |
| 秳 | *ɡoːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡroːds) : semantic 言 (“word”) + phonetic 𠯑. The right component is not related to 舌 (OC *ɦbljed, “tongue”).
Pronunciation
Definitions
話
- speech; talk; language
- what somebody said; (somebody's) words (Classifier: 句)
- dialect; language
- (Cantonese, Hakka) to say; to refer to; to talk about
- (Cantonese, Hakka) to tell someone off, to scold
- (Cantonese) to think; to feel; to consider; to say
- (Cantonese) Sentence-final particle used to ask someone to repeat previous information.
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 說 (“to say, to speak”) [map] | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 言、云、曰 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 說 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 說 |
| Taiwan | 說 | |
| Tianjin | 說 | |
| Jinan | 說 | |
| Xi'an | 說 | |
| Wuhan | 說 | |
| Chengdu | 說 | |
| Hefei | 講 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 講、話 |
| Hong Kong | 講、話 | |
| Yangjiang | 講、話 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 話 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 講、話 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 講 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 講 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 講 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 講 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 講 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 講 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 說 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 話 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 講 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 講 |
| Quanzhou | 說 | |
| Zhangzhou | 講 | |
| Taipei | 講 | |
| Chaozhou | 呾 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 講 |
| Suzhou | 講、說 | |
| Wenzhou | 講 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 講 |
| Shuangfeng | 曰、講 | |
See also
Compounds
Derived terms from 話
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Derived terms
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 話 |
| はなし Grade: 2 |
| kun’yomi |
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
話 (hiragana はなし, rōmaji hanashi)
- talking; speaking; speech; conversation
- 何の話をしてるの？
- Nan no hanashi o shiteru no?
- What are you guys talking about?
- 何の話をしてるの？
- story; tale; narrative
- 「ざしき童子のはなし」
- “Zashiki Bokko no Hanashi”
- The Story of the Zashiki-bokko
- 「ざしき童子のはなし」
- a topic; a subject; that which is spoken about
- rumors; rumours
- negotiation; consultation; discussion
- lecture; speech
Etymology 2
Counter
- Counter for stories.
- Counter for episodes of TV shows.
- 第１話 ― daiichiwa ― episode 1
References
Korean
Hanja
- to speak
Vietnamese
Han character
話 (thoại)
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