How to say it in Chinese

Talk in Chinese

to talk · HSK 1

说话 shuō huà

  1. 说 shuō to speak
  2. 话 huà words

孩子一岁就会说话了。 The child could talk at one year old.

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How do you say talk in Chinese?

Talk in Chinese is 说话 (shuō huà). You can also say 谈 (tán), 讲话 (jiǎng huà), 谈话 (tán huà), 交谈 (jiāo tán).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.