话

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

old variant of 話|话[hua4]

used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"

tongue

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

unreasonable / shocking / outrageous

to be nothing difficult / to be a cinch

ugly talk / vulgarity / obscenity

not saying anything further (idiom); not raising any objection / without demur

the content of a conversation / words / remarks

(spoken) Chinese language

objection / differing opinion

unreasonable / shocking / outrageous / also written 不像話|不像话

bilateral talks

demoralizing talk

Japanese (language) (old)

let's talk about the unpleasant things first / let's be frank

let's talk about the unpleasant things first; let's be frank

in a word / in short

lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)

to talk shop all the time (idiom)

Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect

Don't ask and you won't be told any lies. (idiom)

see 不像話|不像话[bu4 xiang4 hua4]

see 不像話|不像话[bu4 xiang4 hua4]