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
话筒
huàtǒng
microphone
Characters in this word
筒 tǒng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 同 same, similar
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 发言人拿起话筒后，现场的嘈杂声很快安静下来。 Fāyánrén náqǐ huàtǒng hòu, xiànchǎng de cáozá shēng hěn kuài ānjìng xiàlái. After the speaker picked up the microphone, the noise at the scene quickly died down.
- 请把话筒递给后排那位同学。 Qǐng bǎ huàtǒng dì gěi hòupái nà wèi tóngxué. Please pass the microphone to the student in the back row.
- 歌手对着话筒唱了一首轻轻的歌。 Gēshǒu duìzhe huàtǒng chàng le yì shǒu qīngqīng de gē. The singer sang a soft song into the microphone.
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 xiàohuar joke; silly talk
- 话剧 huàjù stage play
- 话题 huàtí topic