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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
- —前言撤回taking back what one just said; eating one's words; negating one's previous comment, opinion, etc.
- —言語生活linguistic aspects of life; linguistic behaviour
- —言語接触language contact
- —言語新作neologism (invention of words that have meaning only to the person who uses them)
- —甘言蜜語honeyed words; flattery
- —甜言蜜語honeyed words; flattery
- —前方宣言forward declaration
- —言語政策language policy
- —直言居士straight shooter; frank person; person who tells it like it is
- —言語哲学philosophy of language
- —多言語化multilingualization; multilingualisation; localization; localisation
- —補助言語auxiliary language
- —手話言語sign language
- —沖縄方言Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
- —単一言語monolingual; single-language
- —弥生狂言kabuki play presented in the third month (Edo period)
- —本土方言mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
- —身体言語body language
- —方言漢字dialectal kanji; kanji only used in a specific region
- —共犯証言state's evidence; crown evidence