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

unpleasant talk / malicious words
questioning (a suspect) / interrogation
friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
to speak using a loud voice or megaphone etc / (fig.) to convey a strong message
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
walkie-talkie / portable radio transmitter
(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent
liar's dice (dice game)
Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai
landline telephone / fixed-line telephone

Sentences with 话

zhè
cái
xiàng
huà