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
- —言語年代学glottochronology
- —歌舞伎狂言kabuki play; kabuki drama; kabuki script
- —顔見世狂言December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform
- —二番目狂言second play on the program
- —言行不一致inconsistency between one's words and actions; insincerity; saying one thing and doing another
- —独立宣言書Declaration of Independence (the document)
- —北海道方言Hokkaido dialect
- —有言不実行all talk, no action
- —生物言語学biolinguistics
- —神経言語学neurolinguistics
- —言語人類学linguistic anthropology
- —理論言語学theoretical linguistics
- —方言連続体dialect continuum; dialect chain
- —言外の意味subtext; implication; connotation; implicit meaning; between the lines
- —身振り言語body language
- —暴言を吐くto hurl abuse (at); to use abusive language
- —言語聴覚士speech therapist
- —命令型言語imperative language
- —言語モデルlanguage model
- —ナヤシ方言nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)