language; speech; dialect

HSK 1 #493

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 493rd character
Radical ⾔ (149.7)
Strokes 9
Index # 1707
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

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

Stroke order

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Words containing 语

Word Meaning
euphemism
Welsh (language)
abbr. to jiā yǔ
Bengali (language)
official language
attributive (modifier)
Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
Hakka dialect
The School Sayings of Confucius classic
Cebuano language of the Philippines
Cebuano; Bisaya language of the Philippines
code; coded language; secret talk
pleasantries; salutation; polite set phrase
introduction; lead paragraph; (journalism) lede
local context
to inflect (in grammar); to conjugate; to decline
Basque (language)
Sunda language, used in West Java province in Indonesia
Hebrew language
Hebrew language
Greek language
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
adjectival phrase
postmodifier (grammar)
Huizhou dialect; speech of Huizhou area