話“tale” Kanjihanasu / wa
How to write 話
Meaning and readings
Meaning
tale, talk
Onyomi (音読み)
- わ wa
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- はな（す） hana(su)
- はなし hanashi
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
電話してくれればよかったのに。
You should've phoned me.
電話 (でんわ)
さっきの話はなかったことにしてください。
Please forget what we talked about earlier.
話 (はなし)
もっとゆっくり話してください。
Speak more slowly.
話し (はなし)
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