speech bubble

English

A speech bubble with the word "Hello!" written in multiple languages.

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English: Hello!
French: Bonjour!
Spanish: ¡Hola!
Italian: Ciao!
Chinese: 你好

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

speech bubble (plural speech bubbles)

1. (comics) A rounded outline, containing words, representing speech in a comic.

   Synonyms: balloon, dialog balloon, dialogue balloon, speech balloon, word balloon, word bubble, fumetto

   Coordinate terms: phylactery, thought bubble

Translations

rounded outline representing speech in a cartoon

• Albanian: shtëllungë ligjërimi f
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: bafarada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對話框 / 对话框 (zh) (duìhuàkuàng)

• Danish: taleboble c
• Dutch: tekstballon (nl) m
• Esperanto: parola veziko
• Finnish: puhekupla (fi)
• French: bulle (fr) f, phylactère (fr) m
• German: Sprechblase (de) f
• Hungarian: beszédbuborék, szövegbuborék, szóbuborék
• Irish: bolgán cainte m
• Italian: fumetto (it) m, nuvoletta (it) f
• Japanese: 吹き出し (ja) (fukidashi)
• Korean: 말풍선 (malpungseon)
• Malagasy: balaonina (mg)
• Māori: pūangi kōrero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snakkeboble (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: snakkeboble f

• Polish: chmurka (pl) f, dymek (pl) m
• Portuguese: balão (pt) m, balão de fala m, balão de diálogo m
• Russian: вы́носка (ru) f (výnoska)
• Spanish: bocadillo (es) m
• Swedish: pratbubbla (sv) c
• Turkish: konuşma balonu

See also

• phylactery (historical analog)