Kanji1 / 14
語 kanji
word, speech, language
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
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On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
かたるかたらう
Words with 語
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —同音語homophone
- —派生語derivative (word)
- —反意語antonym
- —反対語antonym
- —否定語negative word
- —付属語dependent word (i.e. auxiliaries and particles; in Japanese)
- —複合語compound word; compound term
- —目的語object
- —予約語reserved word; keyword
- —幼児語baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
- —用語集glossary; vocabulary
- —両国語both languages
- —類義語similar words; words of similar meaning; synonym
- —膠着語agglutinative language
- —流行語buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase
- —頭字語acronym; initialism
- —語源学(study of) etymology
- —混合語mixed language; hybrid language; pidgin; word formed via contamination
- —混種語hybrid term combining elements drawn from different languages
- —妄語戒precept forbidding one to speak untruthfully; precept of satya