Kanji1 / 7
言 kanji
say, word
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ゲンゴン
Kun readings
いうこと
Words with 言
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —言論界the press; journalism; fourth estate
- —狂言座place on bridge passageway next to the rear of a noh stage (where the interlude kyogen actors wait)
- —狂言方kyogen performer; low-ranked house playwright (of kabuki)
- —本狂言discrete kyogen (performed between two noh plays)
- —狂言師kyogen performer; comic actor
- —新方言new dialect; new regional dialect
- —言語音speech sound
- —Ｒ言語R (programming language)
- —方言量number of dialectal versions of a word
- —証言台witness stand; witness box
- —法格言legal maxim
- —言語野language area of the cortex; speech centre (center)
- —言語島language island; speech island
- —地狂言local amateur kabuki performance (esp. popular in the late Edo and early Meiji periods)
- —言語権linguistic rights
- —名言集collection of (famous) quotes; collection of sayings; analects
- —証言者witness (giving testimony); deponent
- —宣言型declarative
- —迂言法periphrasis
- —虚言癖mythomania; propensity to lie