方言

Chinese

		square; quadrilateral; place square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just	to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad. (方言)		方	言

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 方言

1. (linguistics) dialect; topolect; regional variety (of a language, especially Chinese)

   天津方言  ―  Tiānjīn fāngyán  ―  Tianjin dialect

   廣州方言／广州方言  ―  Guǎngzhōu fāngyán  ―  Guangzhou Cantonese

2. non-Standard Mandarin variety of Chinese (such as dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Min Nan, etc.)

   他在家說方言，在學校說普通話。 [MSC, trad.]
   他在家说方言，在学校说普通话。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā zài jiā shuō fāngyán, zài xuéxiào shuō pǔtōnghuà. [Pinyin]

   He speaks the local dialect at home and Standard Mandarin at school.

3. (religion) tongues

   方言的恩賜／方言的恩赐  ―  fāngyán de ēncì  ―  the gift of tongues

   說方言／说方言  ―  shuō fāngyán  ―  to speak in tongues

Antonyms

• (dialect): (historical) 雅言 (yǎyán)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (方言):

• → Japanese: 方言(ほうげん) (hōgen)
• → Korean: 방언(方言) (bang'eon)
• → Vietnamese: phương ngôn (方言)

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 方言

1. Fangyan (the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms, written by Han dynasty scholar Yang Xiong)

Verb

方言

1. (literary) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 方,‎ 言 (yán): to open one's mouth to speak after a period of silence

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
方	言
ほう Grade: 2	げん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

方(ほう)言(げん) • (hōgen) 

1. a dialect; a provincialism

See also

• Category:Regional Japanese
• -弁(べん) (ben, “suffix for dialects”)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
方	言

Noun

方言 • (bang'eon) (hangeul 방언)

1. Hanja form^? of 방언 (“dialect, patois”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
方	言

Noun

方言

1. chữ Hán form of phương ngôn (“dialect”).