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
话剧
huàjù
stage play
Characters in this word
剧 jù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 居 to live, to reside 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我想看话剧。 Wǒ xiǎng kàn huàjù. I want to watch a play.
- 话剧很好看。 Huàjù hěn hǎokàn. The play is very good.
- 他们演话剧。 Tāmen yǎn huàjù. They act in a play.
Related words
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 电话 diànhuà telephone; phone call
- 话 huà speech, words
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 的话 dehuà if (after a condition)
- 对话 duìhuà dialogue
- 讲话 jiǎnghuà to speak; to talk
- 普通话 pǔtōnghuà Standard Mandarin
- 笑话 xiàohuà joke
- 笑话儿 xiàohuàér joke; silly talk
- 话题 huàtí topic
- 谈话 tánhuà to have a conversation