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
- —口話silent mouthing
- —読話lip reading (esp. in context of deaf people); lipreading; speech reading; speechreading
- —作話confabulation; fabrication
- —来話coming to talk; conversation one came (to a place) to have
- —受話reception (telephone); listening (to a telephone)
- —惨話heartbreaking story; tragic tale
- —類話similar story; variant tale
- —再話retelling (of a tale, legend, etc.)
- —余話anecdote; tidbit; gossip; little-known story
- —全話all episodes; all stories; whole story
- —終話ending a phone conversation; hanging up
- —話数number of episodes (of a television series); number of chapters (of a manga)
- —史話historical tale; historical talk; historical essay
- —一夕話(a) short story; short-story writer
- —下世話common saying; everyday talk; common parlance; vulgar; lowbrow; indecent
- —指話法finger language; signing; sign language
- —糸電話telephone made from two cans and a piece of string
- —赤電話public telephone (orig. red); payphone
- —対話式interactive
- —対話者interlocutor