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話

話

See also: 话

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
simp. 话

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Ideogram (指事) : 言 ‎(“word”) + 舌 ‎(“tongue”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 話
Mandarin Beijing /xua⁵¹/
Harbin /xua⁵³/
Tianjin /xuɑ⁵³/
Jinan /xua²¹/
Qingdao /xua⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xua³¹²/
Xi'an /xua⁴⁴/
Xining /xua²¹³/
Yinchuan /xua¹³/
Lanzhou /xua¹³/
Ürümqi /xua²¹³/
Wuhan /xua³⁵/
Chengdu /xua¹³/
Guiyang /xua²¹³/
Kunming /xua̠²¹²/
Nanjing /xuɑ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xua⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xua⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑ³⁵/
Hohhot /xua⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦo²³/
/ɦua²³/
Suzhou /ɦo³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑ¹³/ 名
/ɦuo¹³/ 動
Wenzhou /ɦo²²/
Hui Shexian /xua²²/
/ua²²/
Tunxi /uːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fa⁵⁵/
/fa¹¹/
Xiangtan /uɒ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /uɑ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fa⁵³/
Taoyuan /fɑ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wa²²/ 白～
/wa³⁵/ 說～
Nanning /wa²²/
Hong Kong /wa²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hua²²/
/ue²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɑ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ua⁴⁴/ 動
/xua⁴⁴/ 名
Shantou (Min Nan) /ue³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hua³⁵/
/ue²³/
Rime
Character 話
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 夬 (30)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 下快切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠuaiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaɨjsH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuaiH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣwæiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huài
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 話
Reading # 1/1
No. 7558
Phonetic
component		 桰
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 話
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡroːds/

Definitions

話

  1. speech, talk, language
  2. what somebody said: (somebody's) words   (Classifier: 句)
  3. dialect
  4. (Cantonese)
    1. to refer to; to indicate; to talk about; referring to
    2. to tell someone that
      使咩話俾佢聽呢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      使咩话俾佢听呢。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      Sai2 me1waa6 bei2 keoi5 teng1 ne1. [Jyutping]
      What do you need to tell him for.
    3. to say that; to claim that
      我唔係話你醜樣，只係你核突。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      我唔系话你丑样，只系你核突。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      From: George Lam, Ah Lam 日記
      Ngo5 m4 hai6waa6 nei5 cau2 joeng6-2, zi2 hai6 nei5 wat6 dat6. [Jyutping]
      I'm not saying that you're ugly, only that you're ugly.
    4. to tell someone off
      唔話佢呢，佢就會繼續做落去。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      唔话佢呢，佢就会继续做落去。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      M4waa6 keoi5 ne1, keoi5 zau6 wui5 gai3 zuk6 zou6 lok6 heoi3. [Jyutping]
      Don't tell him off, and he will continue to do it.

See also

  • 指 (zhǐ)
  • (to tell someone off): 鬧／闹 (naau6, “to scold”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

話

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms

Noun

Kanji in this term
話
はなし
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

話 ‎(hiragana はなし, romaji hanashi)

  1. Alternative form of 話し

Korean

Hanja

話 • ‎(hwa)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 화 (McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
  • Name (hangeul): 말할()
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Vietnamese

Han character

話 (thoại)

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