话 (huà) means Words (speech - talk). Below are 24 of the 236 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他说 话 很干脆。
Tā shuō huà hěn gāncuì.
He speaks in a straightforward way.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 干脆
说 话 要有分寸。
Shuōhuà yào yǒu fēncun.
One should speak with a sense of proportion.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分寸
这段 话 我没听懂。
Zhè duàn huà wǒ méi tīngdǒng.
I didn't understand this passage.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 段
Reading these is one thing; producing 话 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
我一下子说不出 话 来。
wǒ yíxiàzi shuō bùchū huà lái.
For a moment I couldn't say anything.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
她给我打电 话 ，我没接。
tā gěi wǒ dǎdiànhuà, wǒ méi jiē.
She rang me and I didn't pick up.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
王老师很好，他说 话 很慢。
wáng lǎoshī hěnhǎo, tā shuōhuà hěn màn.
Mr Wang is very good — he speaks slowly.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
说实 话 ，我自己也这么想。
shuō shíhuà, wǒ zìjǐ yě zhème xiǎng.
To be honest, I thought the same.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
昨天晚上九点，妈妈给我打电 话 。
zuótiān wǎnshang jiǔ diǎn, māma gěi wǒ dǎdiànhuà.
At nine last night my mum called me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · A Phone Call
可是今天早上，他们打电 话 来了。
kěshì jīntiān zǎoshang, tāmen dǎdiànhuà lái le / liǎo / liào.
But this morning they rang.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
她说 话 不快，可是每个字都很清楚。
tā shuōhuà bùkuài, kěshì měi gè zì dōu hěn qīngchu.
She doesn't speak fast, but every word is clear.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
八点的时候，妈妈给我打了视频电 话 。
bā diǎn de / dì shíhou, māma gěi wǒ dǎle shìpín diànhuà.
At eight my mum made a video call.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
三个月过去了，我们一句 话 也没说过。
sān gè yuè guòqù le / liǎo / liào, wǒmen yī jù huà yě méi shuōguò.
Three months went by without a word between us.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我用电脑给自己打电 话 ，可是没有人接。
wǒ yòng diànnǎo gěi zìjǐ dǎdiànhuà, kěshì méiyǒu rén jiē.
I rang my own number from the computer, but nobody picked up.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
From the travel phrasebook
定制的 话 要打样。
Dìngzhì dehuà yào dǎyàng.
For a custom version we'd need to make a prototype.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
话 appears in 236 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 话
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Questions about 话
How is 话 used in a sentence?
This page shows 236 sentences using 话 (huà, "Words (speech - talk)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 话 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 话 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 话?
The dictionary page for 话 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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