话 (話) huà
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huà
noun
spoken words; talk; conversation; language
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 扁舌头说圆话 'to beat with the tongue and speak circular [words]' (CC-CEDICT '話'; Guoyu '話' n 1; Suyu, p. 47; Unihan '話') -
huà
noun
dialect
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Unihan '話') -
huà
noun
a story
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '話' n 2) -
huà
verb
to discuss; to tell
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '話' v)
Contained in
- 谎话(謊話) lie
- 好话(好話) friendly advice; words spoken on somebody's behalf; a good word; kind words; words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
- 谈话性节目(談話性節目) talk show
- 谈话(談話) to talk; to converse ; talk; conversation
- 一席话(一席話) the content of a conversation
- 情话(情話) terms of endearment; words of love
- 一句话(一句話) in a word; in short
- 白话(白話) spoken language; vernacular
- 电话铃声(電話鈴聲) (telephone) ring; ringing
- 长话短说(長話短說) to make a long story short
- 台山话(台山話) Taishanese
- 俗话说(俗話說) as the proverb says; as they say...
- 成话(成話) to make sense
- 打电话(打電話) to make a telephone call
- 畅谈话卡(暢談話卡) long-term calling card (telephone)
- 说废话(說廢話) to talk nonsense; to bullshit
- 散话(散話) digression
- 通话(通話) to hold a conversation/to talk over the telephone/phone call
- 现成话(現成話) ready-made phrase; unhelpful comment
- 对方付费电话(對方付費電話) collect call
- 俏皮话(俏皮話) a wisecrack; sarcastic remark; double entendre
- 洋话(洋話) foreign language (especially Western)
- 家常话(家常話) common speech; informal talk
- 话梅(話梅) plum candy; preserved plum
- 共话(共話) to discuss together
- 打开天窗说亮话(打開天窗說亮話) not to mince words; not to beat about the bush
- 那话儿(那話兒) genitalia; doohickey; thingumbob
- 东洋话(東洋話) Japanese
- 空话连篇(空話連篇) long-winded empty talk
- 话别(話別) to say good-bye; to bid farewell
- 电话亭(電話亭) telephone booth
- 心里话(心裡話) (to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind
- 拉话(拉話) to chat
- 电话簿(電話簿) telephone directory
- 话锋(話鋒) topic under discussion; thread of discussion
- 重话(重話) harsh words
- 话不投机半句多(話不投機半句多) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion
- 会话(會話) conversation
- 外国话(外國話) foreign languages
- 话中有刺(話中有刺) hidden barbs in one's words; hostile subtext
- 无话不谈(無話不談) not to hold anything back; (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
- 怪话(怪話) ridiculous talk; preposterous remark
- 词话(詞話) form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty
- 话柄(話柄) a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision
- 话剧(話劇) stage play; modern drama
Also contained in
北京话 、 官话方言 、 闽南话 、 诗话 、 官话指南 、 话语
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Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 23
- 第二回 Chapter 32 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 23
- 第二回 Chapter 34 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 22
- 第二回 Chapter 46 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 22
- 卷七十八 列傳第三十八 蕭思話 劉延孫 Volume 78 Biographies 38: Xiao Sihua, Liu Yansun Book of Song 宋書 — count: 22
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 17
- 第二回 Chapter 96 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
- 第二回 Chapter 113 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
- 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
- 第二回 Chapter 109 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 16
Collocations
- 思话 (思話) 羽林監封陽縣開國侯臣蕭思話 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五 本紀第五 文帝 Volume 5 Annals 5: Emperor Wen — count: 142
- 话言 (話言) 告之話言 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — count: 24
- 梁话 (梁話) 安定梁話 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷59 劉昶 蕭寶夤 蕭正表 Volume 59: Liu Chang, Xiao Baoyin, Xiao Zhengbiao — count: 9
- 话及 (話及) 申義康意於蕭思話及曄 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷六十九 列傳第二十九 劉湛 范曄 Volume 69 Biographies 29: Liu Zhan, Fan Ye — count: 6
- 兴话 (興話) 而州人範興話以寒賤仕叨九流 — History of the Southern Dynasties 南史, 卷四十九 列傳第三十九 庾杲之 王諶 孔珪 劉懷珍 Volume 49 Biographies 39: Yu Gaozhi, Wang Chen, Kong Gui, Liu Huaizhen — count: 5
- 话传 (話傳) 源之見子思話傳 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷四十一 列傳第一 后妃 Volume 41 Biographies 1: Emperesses and Consorts — count: 5
- 话先 (話先) 思話先使參軍劉振之戍下邳 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷七十八 列傳第三十八 蕭思話 劉延孫 Volume 78 Biographies 38: Xiao Sihua, Liu Yansun — count: 4
- 话遣 (話遣) 蕭思話遣護之迎軍至梁山 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十 列傳第十 胡藩 劉康祖 垣護之 張興世 Volume 50 Biographies 10: Hu Fan, Liu Kangzu, Yuan Hongzhi, Zhang Xingshi — count: 4
- 话书 (話書) 與思話書 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十三 列傳第十三 張茂度 庾登之 謝方明 江夷 Volume 53 Biographies 13: Zhang Maodu, Yu Dengzhi, Xie Fangming, Jiang Yi — count: 4
- 话固 (話固) 思話固諫 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷七十八 列傳第三十八 蕭思話 劉延孫 Volume 78 Biographies 38: Xiao Sihua, Liu Yansun — count: 4