Kanji1 / 13
話 kanji
tale, talk
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ワ
Kun readings
はなすはなし
Words with 話
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —電話帳Populartelephone directory; telephone book; phone book
- —携帯電話Popularmobile phone; cell phone
- —公衆電話Popularpublic telephone; pay phone
- —電話番号Populartelephone number; phone number
- —お世話になるPopularto 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
- —話counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
- —哀話sad story
- —佳話good story; beautiful story; heartwarming story
- —官話Qing Mandarin (standard variety of Chinese spoken by official classes during the Qing dynasty); Mandarin (branch of Chinese spoken in northern and southwestern China)
- —閑話talking quietly; quiet conversation; idle talk
- —寓話fable; allegory
- —訓話moral discourse; admonitory lecture; instructive talk; exemplum; apologue
- —講話lecture; discourse
- —説話tale; narrative
- —俗話small talk; gossip; spoken language; colloquial expression
- —道話exemplum
- —米話American spoken English
- —例話illustration
- —漏話cross talk
- —話者speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)