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
irony
colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language
oral communication (psychology)
pet phrase; regularly used expression; manner of speaking
classical language
Ancient Greek (language)
old expression; ancient language
just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases
extensible markup language (XML)
Taiwanese; Hokklo
composite context
assembled phonology
not comparable; cannot be equated
synonym
pleasant-sounding Wu dialect
pleasant-sounding Wu dialect
Wu Chinese; Shanghainese and nearby dialects
to tell; to inform
whispering in a low voice (idiom); murmuring
incantation; spell; curse
Kazakh language
Business Chinese Test (BCT)
sign language
to mumble to oneself
monolingual