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.

話 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.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

Characters with 話 as component

話 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 話

to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation
to tell the truth / to tell it as it is
bullshit; nonsense
shit / nonsense
friendly advice / words spoken on sb's behalf / a good word / kind words / words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
conventional greeting / polite formula
conventional greeting; polite formula
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
words of politeness / politesse / decorous talking / talk with propriety
native language / native dialect
"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
liar's dice (dice game)

Sentences with 話

話 currently does not appear in any sentence.