話 means speech; story and is a JLPT N5 kanji. It has 13 strokes and uses the words radical (言).
Stroke order · 13 strokes
On'yomi (音読み)
ワ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
はな(す)、はなし
Radical
言 · words
Strokes
13
How to remember 話
Words (言) and a tongue (舌) — wagging the tongue to speak. 話す (to speak), 電話 (telephone). The real test of learning Japanese is this kanji — once you can talk, everything else gets easier.