Informal form of 話 (hanashi).

continuative of 話す

(transitive) to talk (about something); to speak (on a subject); to converse / to speak (a language)

muteness; dumbness

Extended shinjitai form of 啞: mute, dumb

mute, dumb

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a word, a term / language, speech