话

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dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A spoken 讠 tongue 舌; 舌 also provides the pronunciation

Components 讠舌

talk · Heisig RSH #354

words + 舌 tongue

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
打电话	dǎ diàn huà	to make a telephone call
电话	diàn huà	telephone; CL:部[bu4]; phone call; CL:通[tong1]; phone number
说话	shuō huà	to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
中国话	Zhōng guó huà	(spoken) Chinese language
行动电话	xíng dòng diàn huà	mobile phone (Tw)
大白话	dà bái huà	colloquial speech
无线电话	wú xiàn diàn huà	radio telephony; wireless telephone
上海话	Shàng hǎi huà	Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect
话事人	huà shì rén	(coll.) (from Cantonese) the boss; the big cheese; the top dog
电话机	diàn huà jī	telephone set
电话会	diàn huà huì	conference call; teleconference
空口白话	kōng kǒu bái huà	empty promises
白话文	bái huà wén	writings in the vernacular
不成话	bù chéng huà	see 不像話\|不像话[bu4 xiang4 hua4]
心里话	xīn li huà	(to express one's) true feelings; what is on one's mind; secret mind
外国话	wài guó huà	foreign languages
电话门	Diàn huà Mén	"Phone Gate", corruption scandal unearthed through telephone records
公用电话	gōng yòng diàn huà	public phone; CL:部[bu4]
一家人不说两家话	yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà	lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from …
无话不说	wú huà bù shuō	(of close friends etc) to tell each other everything