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
Spanish (language); western language
idle gossip; irrelevant nonsense; slanderous rumor
concluding remarks
colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language
obscenities; filthy speech
popular jargon; catchword
word; predicate; significative
to talk to oneself
quotation (from a book or existing source)
malicious talk; evil words
old expression; ancient language
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
witticism
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
incomparable
subject (in grammar)
just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases
dialect; patois
obscene language
(grammatical) predicate
flag signals (for communicating between ships or army units)
language family
sparkling with wit (idiom)
Thai (language)
Cantonese language