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 make a telephone call
nonsense / rubbish / superfluous words / You don't say! / No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
(to express one's) true feelings / what is on one's mind / secret mind
whisperings / private words / confidences / sweet nothings
to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression
terms of endearment / words of love
something to be taken up later in speech or writing
ridiculous talk / preposterous remark
(old) to make a phone call
(let's) not mince words; (let's) not beat about the bush
storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary
(Tw) (slang) remark that sounds like it makes sense but is actually nonsense
a bunch of nonsense / verbose and rambling
to talk officiously / to assume the air of a functionary / to talk in official jargon
(dialect) to chat

Sentences with 話

話 currently does not appear in any sentence.