Dong Chinese dictionary

huà

speech

Simplified form of 話. Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 𠯑 represents the sound.

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

𠯑 Sound component

guā

block the mouth

Modern form looks like 舌.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𠯑 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

huà

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

huà

old variant of 話|话[huà]

Most common words with 话

Sources