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

(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
whisperings / private words / confidences / sweet nothings
to talk / to get into conversation with / to send word
Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech
to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression
terms of endearment / words of love
ridiculous talk / preposterous remark
to give orders / to spread news or rumors / to leak certain information intentionally
Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994
long-term calling card (telephone)
(let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush
to talk officiously / to assume the air of a functionary / to talk in official jargon
(dialect) to chat
(old) to make a phone call

Sentences with 话

zhè
cái
xiàng
huà