Character Details
| speech; spoken language | Ascii: — | w460 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 话 | huà | hwah | 4 | 讠 (speech) + 舌 (tongue) → speech; words | 话 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Your tongue allows you to say words and thereby talk to people. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - You're not listening to me | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 149 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 舌 (tongue) → speech; words | 讠 (semantic) | 舌 (phonetic origin) | phonetic from 舌 | ||||||||