Kanji1 / 13
話 kanji
tale, talk
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ワ
Kun readings
はなすはなし
Words with 話
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —非常電話emergency telephone; emergency call
- —手話言語sign language
- —国際手話International Sign (pidgin sign language); IS
- —電話突撃flooding a company, organization etc. with phone complaints (usu. loosely organized on anonymous online message boards)
- —通話品質(telephone) speech quality; sound quality; call quality
- —巷で話題much-talked-about; recently popular; in vogue
- —話題騒然being much talked about; creating a stir; being the talk of town
- —描出話法represented speech
- —電話相談telephone counselling; telephone consultation
- —電話会談telephone conference (between heads of state, etc.)
- —電話電報telephone telegram; phonogram
- —神婚説話tale of a marriage between a human and a god
- —誕生秘話facts behind the origin of something; previously unknown story
- —通話録音call recording
- —会話表現conversational expression
- —送受話器receiver
- —武功夜話Bukouyawa (chronicle covering the Warring States to Momoyama periods, probably bogus)
- —テレビ電話videophone; video telephone; video call
- —世話になるto receive favor; to receive assistance; to receive help; to be looked after; to be taken care of; to become dependent (on); to become much obliged (to someone); to become indebted
- —世話を焼くto take care of someone; to look after someone; to help; to give help where it isn't wanted; to be officious; to bother; to meddle; to interfere