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
- —緊急宣言declaration of a state of emergency
- —声調言語tone language; tonal language
- —音調言語tone language; tonal language
- —引退宣言announcement of one's retirement
- —終戦宣言end-of-war declaration
- —言語純化linguistic purism; linguistic protectionism
- —八丈方言Hachijō dialects; Hachijō language
- —少数言語minority language
- —言語喪失language attrition (process of losing a native or first language); linguistic attrition; hypophrasia
- —言語学的linguistic
- —反響言語echolalia
- —言志四録Genshi Shiroku (book of sayings by Satō Issai)
- —言語治療speech therapy
- —メタ発言breaking the fourth wall (esp. in fiction); out-of-universe comment; remark that refers to the work as a work of fiction or to its characters, setting, audience, etc.
- —換言すればin other words; that is (to say); to put it another way
- —計量言語学quantitative linguistics
- —多国籍言語multilingual; in many languages
- —比較言語学comparative linguistics
- —別言すればin other words
- —数理言語学mathematical linguistics