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
- —電話代telephone bill; telephone rate
- —神話的mythical; mythological
- —通話表phonetic alphabet (e.g. A for alpha, B for bravo, etc.); phonetic code
- —世話係attendant; person who looks after one's needs; caretaker
- —発話者speaker
- —電話番phone duty; being on call
- —話題化topicalization
- —会話語vernacularism; colloquialism
- —電話台telephone table; telephone stand
- —北方話Northern Chinese; Mandarin
- —痴話文love letter; billet-doux
- —詐話師con artist; swindler who tricks victims with false narratives
- —錯話症allolalia
- —会話文direct speech (in a text); spoken lines; written dialogue
- —閑話休題getting back to the subject at hand, ...; (but) to return to the main topic, ...; so much for digressions, ...
- —脅迫電話telephone threat (e.g. of a bomb)
- —市外電話long-distance call
- —世話焼きhelpful person; person who likes looking after others; overly helpful person; annoyingly helpful person; manager; go-between; caretaker
- —世話人間person who looks after others
- —卓上電話desk phone