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話

JLPT N5 SL2 13 strokes Frequency: #134

Meanings

Tale, Talk

Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿰言舌

Etymology

Ideographic: A spoken 言 tongue 舌; 舌 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-to-top

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 vertical right-to-left

11 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

12 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ワ wa

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はな hana

はなし hanashi

Words Using This Kanji

457 words total

Other (20 words)

話が弾むはなしがはずむ

the conversation becomes lively

お世話になっておりますおせわになっております

thank you very much for everything

痴話文ちわぶみ

love letter

史話しわ

historical tale

会話表現かいわひょうげん

conversational expression

ボタン電話ボタンでんわ

key telephone system

詐話師さわし

con artist

苦労話くろうばなし

story of one's struggles

送受話器そうじゅわき

receiver

錯話症さくわしょう

allolalia

グリム童話グリムどうわ

Grimm's Fairy Tales

国際電信電話会社こくさいでんしんでんわかいしゃ

International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation

国民対話集会こくみんたいわしゅうかい

National Issues Forum

日本手話学会にっぽんしゅわがっかい

Japanese Association of Sign Linguistics

日本話しことば協会にっぽんはなしことばきょうかい

Association of Spoken Japanese for Better Communication

武功夜話ぶこうやわ

Bukouyawa (chronicle covering the Warring States to Momoyama periods, probably bogus)

日本電信電話株式会社にっぽんでんしんでんわかぶしきがいしゃ

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

アラビア夜話アラビアよばなし

Arabian Nights

国際電信電話こくさいでんしんでんわ

KDD

日本電信電話公社にっぽんでんしんでんわこうしゃ

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (defunct)

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