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話

はなし

talk, story

Mnemonic

Words with a tongue doing the whole of the work. Hannah はな, she し, talked the entire night and nobody else got a word in: はなし.

Built from

talk, story
言 speech + 舌 tongue

Words sharing these kanji

to talk, to speak conversation telephone topic of conversation

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