talk; story

Builds 48 distinct compound words — ranked #50 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ワ
訓 kun: はな.す・はなし

Talking and what gets talked about. 電話 a telephone, 会話 conversation, 世話 looking after someone.

The ten most common compounds built on 話. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

48compounds built

3,744times those words occur

#94by productivity alone

#29by how often it turns up

Where 話 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 話. Each one opens its own map.

手hand話し相手#10 会meet; association会話、英会話#13 中middle; inside話し中#18 合fit together話し合う、話し合い#25 方direction; method; person話し方#38 電electricity; lightning電話#88

Words built on 話

話すはなす1,454 uses

話はなし929 uses

電話でんわ746 uses

話し合うはなしあう105 uses

世話せわ77 uses

会話かいわ66 uses

話し方はなしかた60 uses

話題わだい44 uses

話し合いはなしあい20 uses

話し中17 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.