four things [small or without a counter category]

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)

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

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

language, speech

(orthography) the four kana pairs of じ/ジ, ず/ズ, ぢ/ヂ and づ/ヅ, the latter two of which represent historical morae that are now pronounced identically to the former two in most major dialects

cutting in four / quarter