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话
諙
huà
1. old variant of [[話|话<huà>]]
Very Common • Top 0%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

话
huà
talk, speech; language, dialect
HSK 1 8 丶

Compound Words (20)

话梅
huàméi
plum candy
讲话
jiǎnghuà
a speech
胡话
húhuà
nonsense
话柄
huàbǐng
a pretext for gossip
话锋
huàfēng
topic under discussion
谎话
huǎnghuà
lie
空话
kōnghuà
empty talk
听话
tīnghuà
to do what one is told
话亭
huàtíng
telephone booth
话本
huàběn
Song and Yuan literary form based on vernacular folk stories
话痨
huàláo
chatterer
话费
huàfèi
call charge
话头
huàtóu
subject (under discussion)
谈话
tánhuà
talk
的话
dehuà
if (coming after a conditional clause)
神话
shénhuà
legend
HSK 5
童话
tónghuà
children's fairy tales
HSK 6
答话
dáhuà
to reply
评话
pínghuà
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
词话
cíhuà
form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty

Alternate Entries

话
huà
dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:[[種|种<zhǒng>]], [[席<xí>]], [[句<jù>]], [[口<kǒu>]], [[番<fān>]]

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
169
Word Frequency Rank
159 of 84,292