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

= + : Helga Horse can't talk at all right now, because her tongue is stuck on an advertisement column in the ashram's bathroom. In an ad on the advertising column, two people were discussing a depicted beautiful carrot; Helga thought it looked so tasty she had to lick it, and now her tongue is stuck.
old variant of 話|话[hua4]

= + : Helga Horse can't talk at all right now, because her tongue is stuck on an advertisement column in the ashram's bathroom. In an ad on the advertising column, two people were discussing a depicted beautiful carrot; Helga thought it looked so tasty she had to lick it, and now her tongue is stuck.

话 character breakdown

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

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 话 as component

话 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 话

telephone / CL:部[bu4] / phone call / CL:通[tong1] / phone number
to make a telephone call
joke / jest / CL:個|个[ge4] / to laugh at / to mock
a speech / to speak / to talk / to address / CL:個|个[ge4]
nonsense / rubbish / superfluous words / You don't say! / No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
profanity / obscene language / speaking rudely
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:篇[pian1]
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
stage play / modern drama / CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]
crazy talk / ravings / nonsense
unreasonable / shocking / outrageous
argot / bandits' secret jargon / malicious words
to make a fool of oneself
obscenities / lewd talk
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story

Sentences with 话

zhè
cái
xiàng
huà