(huà) - words, speech, language in Mandarin
huàTraditional: 話
Translation
words, speech, language
Word origin
话 (huà, 'words, speech') is a phono-semantic compound. 讠(the speech radical, simplified from 言) marks the meaning of speaking, with 舌 (shé, 'tongue') as the phonetic element. The traditional form is 話.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 讠(speech radical) + 舌 (shé, phonetic)
Stroke order
话
Examples
。
I have remembered what you said.
句？
What does this sentence mean?
句。
She did not say a single word.
。
Let us have a proper talk.
。
The words on the phone were not clear.
话 (huà) - words, speech, language.
Appears in 8 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 话.
Used in
Stories
(5)Grammar articles
(14)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out
Duration Complements in Mandarin (时量补语): How to Say How Long an Action Lasts
The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
Mandarin Modal Verbs: 会, 想, 要, 应该, 可以, 能 and the Future-Intent Words 打算, 准备
Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle
Mandarin Requests and Imperatives: 请, 别, 不要, the Softening Particles 吧/啊, and Verb Reduplication
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
The Three de in Mandarin: 的, 得, and 地 and How to Tell Them Apart
Mandarin Verb-Object Verbs: Why 'To Eat' Is 吃饭 and How It Splits Apart
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