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會話

简会话 · 繁會話

Mandarin · pinyin huì huà

(language learning) conversation
dialog
to converse (in a non-native language)
(computing) session
Classifier: 個 gè, 次 cì

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會: huì · to assemble, meet together; a meeting; an organization
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
会: huì · assemble, meet together; meeting
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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4–4 · hui4 hua4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

wui6 waa2

Cantonese word readings for 會話. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to converse

noun

conversation; dialogue (Classifier: 個／个)
(computing) session (the sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system)

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