language, words; saying, expression

DEFINITIONS

語 yǔ
  • dialect
  • language
  • speech
語 yù
  • to tell to

STROKES

WORDS

dú yǔ solo part (in opera); soliloquy
句 dú yǔ jù one-word sentence
珞巴 luò bā yǔ Lhoba, language of Lhoba ethnic group of southeast Tibet
瑞典 ruì diǎn yǔ Swedish (language)
甘言蜜 gān yán mì yǔ (idiom) sweet words; sweet talk; cajolery
甜言美 tián yán měi yǔ sweet words, beautiful phrases (idiom); hypocritical flattery
甜言蜜 tián yán mì yǔ (idiom) sweet words; sweet talk; cajolery
生詞 shēng cí yǔ vocabulary words (in language-learning books); new or unfamiliar words
yòng yǔ choice of words; wording; phraseology; term
lüè yǔ abbreviation
詞 fā yǔ cí form word; in Classical Chinese, the first character of phrase having auxiliary grammatical function
辭 fā yǔ cí literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence
皮層下失症 pí céng xià shī yǔ zhèng subcortical aphasia
皮欽 pí qīn yǔ pidgin
mù yǔ to speak with the eyes
直接賓 zhí jiē bīn yǔ direct object (grammar)
短時音記憶 duǎn shí yǔ yīn jì yì short-term phonological memory
duǎn yǔ phrase (grammar)
社交言 shè jiāo yǔ yán lingua franca
社會言學 shè huì yǔ yán xué sociolinguistics
zǔ yǔ proto-language; parent language (linguistics)
禁忌 jìn jì yǔ taboo language
jìn yǔ taboo (word); unmentionable word
sī yǔ to discuss in whispered tones; whispered conversation
科普特 kē pǔ tè yǔ Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[Ke1 pu3 te4 ren2], spoken in Egypt until late 17th century