話

Readings

Pinyin: huà

Wade-Giles: hua

Hangul: 화

Korean MC: hwa

Korean MR: hwa

Katakana: ワ

Hepburn: wa

thoại

speech

• To talk, speak, tell, relate, tell a story. [語] (Skt. ākhyāyikā) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, Hirakawa]
• A talk, a discussion, a story. The words of ancestral teachers 祖師 in the Chan lineage, also called "old cases" 古則 and "cases in court" 公案, that are held up for comment by a teacher in formal settings such as the head seat's dharma combat ceremony 首座法戰式. [resp. Griffith Foulk, Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1324c

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 174

Koga, 496

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 1467c

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1076

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)5087a

Soothill, 413

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