話
简 话 · 繁 話Meanings
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4 · hua4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
waa2 · waa6
Cantonese word readings for 話. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- words; talk; what somebody says (Classifier: 句 m mn)
- story; tale
- dialect; language, especially a spoken language
- to talk about; to discuss
- (Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Northern Min, Wu) to say; to refer to; to talk about
- (Cantonese, transitive) to tell (someone something)
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Wu) to tell someone off; to scold
- (Cantonese) to think; to feel; to consider; to say
- (Cantonese) Sentence-final particle used to ask someone to repeat previous information.
- (Cantonese) quotative: that
- (ACG) episode
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