話

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話 U+8A71, 話
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A71
← 詰
[U+8A70]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 該 →
[U+8A72]
See also: 话

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

話 (radical 149 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹十口 (YRHJR), four-corner 02664, composition ⿰言舌)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1158, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35441
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1624, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3965, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8A71

Chinese[edit]

trad. 話
simp. 话
alt. forms 䛡

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 話
Small seal script
話-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咶 *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話 *ɡroːds
刮 *kroːd
鴰 *kroːd, *koːd
趏 *kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌 *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡 *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢 *ɡroːd, *koːd
括 *koːd
活 *koːd, *ɡoːd
适 *koːd, *kʰoːd
栝 *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸 *koːd, *ɡoːd
髺 *koːd
聒 *koːd
銛 *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀 *koːd
懖 *koːd
筈 *koːd, *kʰoːd
萿 *koːd
蛞 *kʰoːd
闊 *kʰoːd
秳 *ɡoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡroːds): semantic 言 (“word”) + phonetic 𠯑. The right component is not related to 舌 (OC *ɦbljed, “tongue”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • waa6-2 - “dialect; language; particle”;
  • waa6 - other senses.
Note:
  • va5* - “dialect; language”;
  • va5 - other senses.
Note:
  • fa4 - noun;
  • va4 - verb.
Note:
  • ōe/ōa - vernacular (ōa - rare in Xiamen);
  • hōa - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 話
Mandarin Beijing /xua⁵¹/
Harbin /xua⁵³/
Tianjin /xuɑ⁵³/
Jinan /xua²¹/
Qingdao /xua⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xua³¹²/
Xi'an /xua⁴⁴/
Xining /xua²¹³/
Yinchuan /xua¹³/
Lanzhou /xua¹³/
Ürümqi /xua²¹³/
Wuhan /xua³⁵/
Chengdu /xua¹³/
Guiyang /xua²¹³/
Kunming /xua̠²¹²/
Nanjing /xuɑ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xua⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xua⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑ³⁵/
Hohhot /xua⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦo²³/
/ɦua²³/
Suzhou /ɦo³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑ¹³/ 名
/ɦuo¹³/ 動
Wenzhou /ɦo²²/
Hui Shexian /xua²²/
/ua²²/
Tunxi /uːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fa⁵⁵/
/fa¹¹/
Xiangtan /uɒ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /uɑ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fa⁵³/
Taoyuan /fɑ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wa²²/ 白～
/wa³⁵/ 說～
Nanning /wa²²/
Hong Kong /wa²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hua²²/
/ue²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɑ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ua⁴⁴/ 動
/xua⁴⁴/ 名
Shantou (Min Nan) /ue³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hua³⁵/
/ue²³/
Rime
Character 話
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 夬 (30)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 下快切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠuaiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaɨjsH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuaiH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣwæiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huài
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 話
Reading # 1/1
No. 7558
Phonetic
component		 桰
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 話
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡroːds/

Definitions[edit]

話

  1. speech; talk; language
  2. what somebody said; (somebody's) words (Classifier: 句)
  3. dialect; language
  4. (Cantonese, Hakka) to say; to refer to; to talk about
  5. (Cantonese, Hakka) to tell someone off, to scold
  6. (Cantonese) to think; to feel; to consider; to say
  7. (Cantonese) Sentence-final particle used to ask someone to repeat previous information.

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 說 (“to say, to speak”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 言、云、曰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 說
Mandarin Beijing 說
Taiwan 說
Tianjin 說
Jinan 說
Xi'an 說
Wuhan 說
Chengdu 說
Hefei 講
Cantonese Guangzhou 講、話
Hong Kong 講、話
Yangjiang 講、話
Gan Nanchang 話
Hakka Meixian 講、話
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 講
Liudui (S. Sixian) 講
Hsinchu (Hailu) 講
Dongshi (Dabu) 講
Zhuolan (Raoping) 講
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 講
Jin Taiyuan 說
Min Bei Jian'ou 話
Min Dong Fuzhou 講
Min Nan Xiamen 講
Quanzhou 說
Zhangzhou 講
Taipei 講
Chaozhou 呾
Wu Shanghai 講
Suzhou 講、說
Wenzhou 講
Xiang Changsha 講
Shuangfeng 曰、講

See also[edit]

  • 指 (zhǐ)
  • (to tell someone off): 鬧／闹 (naau6, “to scold”)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 話

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

話

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
話
はなし
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

話 (hiragana はなし, rōmaji hanashi)

  1. talking; speaking; speech; conversation
    何 (なん)の話 (はなし)をしてるの？
    Nan no hanashi o shiteru no?
    What are you guys talking about?
  2. story; tale; narrative
    「ざしき童子 (ぼっこ)のはなし」
    “Zashiki Bokko no Hanashi”
    The Story of the Zashiki-bokko
  3. a topic; a subject; that which is spoken about
  4. rumors; rumours
  5. negotiation; consultation; discussion
  6. lecture; speech

Etymology 2[edit]

Counter[edit]

話 (hiragana わ, rōmaji -wa)

  1. Counter for stories.
  2. Counter for episodes of TV shows.
    第 (だい)１ (いち)話 (わ) ― daiichiwa ― episode 1

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

話 • (hwa)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 화 (McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
    • Name (hangeul): 말할
  1. to speak

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

話 (thoại)

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