language; speech; dialect

Character data

Radical ⾔ (149.7)
Strokes 14
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

語 yǔ
  1. 1. language
  2. 2. speech
  3. 3. dialect
語 yù
  1. 1. to tell to

Stroke order

語 stroke order diagram

Words containing 語

Word Meaning
low-level (computer) language
Buddhist term
Flemish (language)
Buddhist term
example sentence
Russian (language)
common saying; proverb; colloquial speech
slang
Bulgarian language
(grammar) modifier; qualifier; adjunct
subjunctive
chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
to pass on (information)
Sinhalese (language)
metalanguage
metalinguistic awareness
metalinguistic ability
Croatian (language)
creole language
global context
verbosity; verbose speech
to make sarcastic comments; sarcastic comments (idiom)
sarcasm; sneering talk
to offend people with unkind remarks (idiom)
analytic language