话 · huà
speech, talk, language; dialect
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
speech, talk, language; dialect
- Mandarin
- huà
- Cantonese
- waa6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8BDD
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 话
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 2 matches
万一我来晚的话，就别等我了。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #394205 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #1437199 · Original contributor: CK · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- huà
- kCantonese
- waa6
- kDefinition
- speech, talk, language; dialect
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8A71
- kTGH
- 2013:1296
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- huà 0484.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- huà 143.100
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- huà(2332) hua(32)