Kanji 話 — "Tale"
Here is what 話 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Tale" stick.
How it is read
わ
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
はなす, はなし
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
A Tale must be told using Say and your Tongue!
- 言 Say
The 4 strokes coming out of the mouth represent the sound that is Speech.
- 舌 Tongue
All Thousand Mouths have one thing in common: a Tongue — without it, no one can taste or speak!
Words that use 話
12 of 19 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 話 はなし talk, story
- 話す はなす to speak (v.t.)
- 電話 でんわ telephone
- 話し合う はなしあう to discuss, to talk together (v.t.)
- 会話 かいわ conversation
- 世話 せわ looking after, to look after
- 話題 わだい topic, subject
- 対話 たいわ conversation, dialogue
- 話し掛ける はなしかける to accost a person, to talk (to someone) (v.t.)
- 昔話 むかしばなし old tale, folklore
- 受話器 じゅわき (telephone) receiver
- 童話 どうわ fairy tale
Want 話 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
