Chinese Character Wiki
话

huà

speech

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

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

𠯑 sound component

𠯑  Sound component

guā

  

block the mouth

Modern form looks like 舌.

Evolution

话 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
话 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
话 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
话 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

话 (話) 

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]

话 (諙) 

huà

old variant of 話|话[huà]

Most common words with 话
Freq.
Word
Meaning

话

dialect

电话

telephone

说话

to speak

打电话

to make a telephone call

讲话

a speech

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.7277% of movies

81st most common character in movies

170th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

話

Unicode

U+8BDD


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