说 shuō
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 兑 cash, check
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
说话
shuōhuà
to talk, to speak
Characters in this word
话 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 请不要说话。 Qǐng búyào shuōhuà. Please don't talk.
- 老师在说话。 Lǎoshī zài shuōhuà. The teacher is speaking.
- 我在跟朋友说话。 Wǒ zài gēn péngyou shuōhuà. I'm talking with a friend.
Related words
- 说 shuō to say, to speak
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电话 diànhuà telephone; phone call
- 话 huà speech, words
- 读 dú to read, to read aloud; to study
- 外语 wàiyǔ foreign language
- 读书 dúshū to read books; to study
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 写 xiě to write
- 字 zì character, word
- 听写 tīngxiě dictation; to write from dictation
- 汉字 hànzì Chinese character