話
huà HSK1

speech

话 話 huà
variant 諙
speech noun
spoken words; speech; talk; conversation; what someone says; something said

我父亲的话就是法律。

wǒ fù​qīn de huà jiù​shì fǎ​lǜ.

My father's word is law.

他的话给了我希望。

tā de huà gěi le wǒ xī​wàng.

His words gave me hope.

[supposition] particle
Used at the end of a conditional clause, meaning "if", as in the construction 的话 de​huà.

如果可能的话，出去吃。

rú​guǒ kě​néng de huà, chū qu chī.

If possible, go out to eat.

否则的话，他今天也不会在这里。

fǒu​zé de huà, tā jīn​tiān yě bù​huì zài zhè​lǐ.

Otherwise, he’d not be here today.

to talk about nounverb
to talk; to discuss; to narrate
language noun
language; dialect

你说的是哪国话？

nǐ shuō de shì nǎ guó huà?

What language are you speaking?

Cross-References

Classifier

See

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
170th most common 1240.6 per million
Movie subtitles
81st most common 2132.3 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1189.4 per million appears in 97% of films
Written text
460.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
话
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8A71

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)