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言 kanji
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- 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
- —雲伯方言dialects of Japanese spoken in Western Tottori prefecture and Eastern Shimane prefecture
- —警戒宣言official warning (esp. of an impending earthquake)
- —自己言及self-reference
- —言語行為speech act
- —証言録取deposition; record of testimony
- —言語行動verbal behaviour; language behaviour
- —言語活動linguistic activity; language (as defined by Saussure; langue and parole)
- —言語遊戯word game
- —狂言作者house playwright (of kabuki)
- —間の狂言kyogen interlude; short scene during a noh play, performed by a kyogen actor (usu. explaining the play)
- —高次言語metalanguage
- —世界言語global language; world language; languages of the world; world languages
- —江戸狂言Edo-style kabuki
- —上方狂言kabuki in the Kyoto-Osaka style
- —言論弾圧suppression of speech; suppression of dissent; censorship
- —言論統制regulation of freedom of speech
- —社会方言sociolect; social dialect
- —上層方言acrolect
- —下位方言subdialect
- —下層方言basilect