说话 shuōhuà▶ hablar

Stroke order

说话 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 说 — 9 strokes
• 话 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to speak
2. to say
3. to talk
4. to gossip
5. to tell stories
6. talk
7. word

Example sentences

• 请别说话。Qǐng bié shuōhuà.Please do not talk.
• 他在教室说话吗？Tā zài jiàoshì shuōhuà ma?Is he talking in the classroom?

Related words

• 说hablar
• 打电话hacer una llamada telefónica
• 对话diálogo
• 小说Novela
• 笑话broma
• 说明Explicar

说话 is pronounced shuōhuà and means “hablar”. It belongs to the HSK 2 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 说话 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.