Kanji1 / 7
言 kanji
say, word
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
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On readings
ゲンゴン
Kun readings
いうこと
Words with 言
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —麁言rude word; inappropriate word; coarse language
- —戲言joke; jest
- —哢言playing with words; frivolous speech; flippant remarks; glib talk; verbosity
- —予言者prophet; predictor; prognosticator
- —体言止ending a sentence or poem with a noun or noun phrase
- —切り狂言last piece in a kabuki programme
- —流言蜚語false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
- —狂言廻しsupporting, but indispensable role; major supporting role
- —替り狂言upcoming program; upcoming programme
- —造言蜚語wild rumor; wild rumour
- —言言句句every single word and phrase; each and every word
- —恐々謹言very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)
- —仁輪加狂言impromptu skit; (theatrical) farce; extravaganza
- —身ぶり言語body language
- —暴言をはくto hurl abuse (at); to use abusive language
- —なやし方言nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)
- —言質をとるto get a commitment; to exact a promise; to get someone's word; to obtain someone's pledge
- —言をまたないneedless to say; it goes without saying that
- —言を俟たないneedless to say; it goes without saying that
- —第四世代言語fourth generation language; 4GL