言

See also 訁, and 讠

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• trad. 訁, simpl. 讠 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

Etymology

Pictograph of words emerging from a mouth (口)

Han character

言 (radical 149 言+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜一一口 (YMMR), four-corner 0060₁)

1. words, speech
2. speak, say

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/言
• 唁 誾 狺 這 獄

References

• KangXi: page 1146, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35205
• Dae Jaweon: page 1612, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3936, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8A00

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Cantonese

Hanzi

言 (Yale yin4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

言 (POJ nyen5, Guangdong ngien²; nian² [Meixian], ngen² [Dongguan], nien² [Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim ngian2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

言 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: げん (gen), ごん (gon), ぎん (gin)
• Kun: こと (koto), いう (iu), ことば (kotoba)

Compounds

• 悪口雑言
• 言語
• 言上
• 方言
• 暴言
• 無言
• 遺言
• 明言

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Korean

Hanja

言 (hangeul 언, 은, revised eon, eun, McCune-Reischauer ŏn, ŭn, Yale en, un)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

言 (pinyin yán (yan2), Wade-Giles yen²)

Noun

言 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yán)

1. (literary) speech

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Middle Chinese

Han character

言 (*ngiæn, ŋǝn)

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Min Nan

Noun

言 (traditional and simplified, POJ giân)

1. (literary) speech; talk

Derived terms

• trad. 語言, simpl. 语言 (gú-giân)

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Vietnamese

Han character

言 (ngôn, ngỏn, ngộn, ngổn, ngồn, ngủn)