话

huà · hua

Traditional 話 / 諙

Meaning

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huà 話

  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said
  9. CL:種 / 种 (zhǒng),席 (xí),句 (jù),口 (kǒu),番 (fān)

huà 諙

  1. old variant of 話 / 话 (huà)

In a sentence

2 examples
01

她(tā)几(jī)乎(hū)没(méi)有(yǒu)说(shuō)完(wán)话(huà),就(jiù)被(bèi)他(tā)打(dǎ)断(duàn)了(le)。

She had scarcely finished speaking when he cut in.

Tatoeba: Chinese by GlossaMatik · English by CM · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

在(zài)公(gōng)车(chē)上(shàng),一(yí)个(gè)陌(mò)生(shēng)人(rén)和(hé)我(wǒ)说(shuō)了(le)话(huà)。

A stranger spoke to me on the bus.

Tatoeba: Chinese by fucongcong · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

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