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)

a dialect; a provincialism

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

Ryukyu / Liuqiu Island, Taiwan

(dialect, Kagoshima) Ryukyu; Ryukyu Islands

You'll be convinced if you listen to me.