Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): Radical: 訁 (言) + Phonetic: 吾 (五 + 口)
Han character [edit]
語 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一一口 (YRMMR), four-corner 01661, composition ⿰言吾)
- language, words
- saying, expression
References [edit]
- KangXi: page 1163, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35533
- Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3974, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8A9E
Cantonese [edit]
語 (simplified 语, jyutping jyu5, Yale yu5)
Japanese [edit]
語 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)
- A word.
- Speech.
- Language.
- A term.
Readings [edit]
Compounds [edit]
Compounds starting with 語
- 語句 (ごく, goku): words, phrases
- 語気 (ごき, goki): tone (of voice or wording), manner (of speaking)
- 語尾 (ごび, gobi): the inflected ending of a word
- 語尾変化 (ごびへんか, [[gobi henka]]): the inflection of words
- 語形 (ごけい, gokei): a word form, an inflectional form
- 語呂 / 語路 (ごろ, goro): the ring or sound of a word or phrase; euphony
- 語法 (ごほう, gohō): diction, grammar, syntax
- 語学 (ごがく, gogaku): linguistics
- 語学者 (ごがくしゃ, gogakusha): a linguist
- 語根 (ごこん, gokon): the stem or root of a word
- 語格 (ごかく, gokaku): grammar
- 語脈 (ごみゃく, gomyaku): the interrelationship of words
- 語原 / 語源 (ごげん, gogen): a word's derivation or etymology
- 語源学 (ごげんがく, gogengaku): the study of etymology
- 語族 (ごぞく, gozoku): a language family
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- 語釈 (ごしゃく, goshaku): an explanation or explication of a word, term, phrase, or clause
- 語数 (ごすう, gosū): the number of words
- 語群 (ごぐん, gogun): a language group
- 語彙 (ごい, goi): vocabulary
- 語義 (ごぎ, gogi): the meaning of a word
- 語意 (ごい, goi): the meaning of a word
- 語勢 (ごせい, gosei): stress, tone, or emphasis; a manner of speaking
- 語感 (ごかん, gokan): a sense of language; the nuance of a word
- 語幹 (ごかん, gokan): the stem or root of a word
- 語調 (ごちょう, gochō): tone of voice, accent
- 語弊 (ごへい, gohei): a misleading expression; a misunderstanding
- 語頭 (ごとう, gotō): the head or beginning of a word
- 語類 (ごるい, gorui): part of speech
- 語順 (ごじゅん, gojun): word order
- 語録 (ごろく, goroku): a collection of sayings; analects
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Compounds containing 語
- アルファベットの語 ({{l|ja|アルファベットのご{{l|ja|, arufabetto no go): alphabetic word
- 新語 (しんご, shingo): a new word
- 難語 (なんご, nango): a difficult word
- 口語 (こうご, kōgo): colloquial speech, a conversational style
- 一語 (いちご, ichigo): one word
- 一語一語 (いちごいちご, ichigoichigo): verbatim, word for word
- 単語 (たんご, tango): word, term
- 自立語 (じりつご, jiritsugo): (grammar) an independent word
- 付属語 (ふぞくご, fuzokugo): (grammar) a dependent word
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- 活用語 (かつようご, katsuyōgo): an inflectional word: a word that inflects
- 無活用語 (むかつようご, mukatsuyōgo): a non-inflectional or non-inflecting word
- 共通語 (きょうつうご, kyōtsūgo): a common language; a lingua franca
- 外国語 (がいこくご, gaikokugo): foreign language
- 外来語 (がいらいご, gairaigo): a borrowed term: a word originally from another language
- 日本語 (にほんご, nihongo): Japanese (language)
- 物語 (ものがたり, monogatari): tale, story, legend
- 母語 (ぼご, bogo): mother tongue; native language
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Usage notes [edit]
Add the suffix -語 to the name of a country to derive the word for that country's language. For example, 日本 (Nihon, "Japan") + 語 = 日本語 (Nihongo, "Japanese"); スペイン (Supein, "Spain") + 語 = スペイン語 (Supeingo, "Spanish"). Note that there are some exceptions to this, such as イギリス (Igirisu, "England") and 英語 (Eigo, "English").
Suffix [edit]
語 (hiragana ご, romaji -go)
- language of, -ese
Korean [edit]
- 語 (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune-Reischauer mal, Yale mal)
- 語 (hangeul 말씀, revised malsseum, McCune-Reischauer malsseum, Yale malsseum)
- 語 (hangeul 어, revised eo, McCune-Reischauer ŏ, Yale e)
Mandarin [edit]
語 (simplified 语, pinyin yǔ (yu3), Wade-Giles yü3)
Compounds [edit]
Min Nan [edit]
語 (POJ gú, gí)
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
語 (ngữ, ngứ)
