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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
- —金言名句golden (wise) saying; aphorism; maxim
- —言行齟齬inconsistency of speech and action; failing to act up to one's words; not practicing what one preaches
- —直言直筆speak and write plainly (frankly); speak and write without reserve
- —沈黙寡言taciturn; reticent
- —爆弾宣言bombshell announcement (declaration)
- —問題発言problematic statement; controversial remark
- —有言実行carrying out one's words; being as good as one's word; making good on one's promise
- —差別発言discriminatory remark; hate speech
- —恐恐謹言very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)
- —前言往行words and deeds of the people of yore
- —壮言大語heroic words; big talk; boasting; bragging; grandiloquence; rodomontade
- —パラ言語paralanguage
- —目撃証言eyewitness testimony
- —書記言語written language; literary language
- —文字言語written language; literary language
- —定言命法categorical imperative
- —仮言命法hypothetical imperative
- —目標言語target language; object language
- —人間宣言Declaration of Humanity (wherein Hirohito renounced the imperial claim to divinity; January 1, 1946)
- —暗示宣言implicit declaration