Kanji1 / 14
語 kanji
word, speech, language
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
かたるかたらう
Words with 語
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —日常語everyday language; common parlance; vernacular
- —育児語baby talk (used in talking to young children)
- —言語島language island; speech island
- —生活語private-sphere language; language used in every day life; dialect
- —反語的ironic; ironical
- —近代語modern Japanese (as spoken since the Middle Ages); Japanese spoken during the Meiji period (sometimes including the late Edo period and/or the Taishō period)
- —エス語Esperanto
- —西夏語Tangut (language)
- —イド語Ido (constructed language)
- —ビン語Min Chinese (language); Min
- —英語名English name (for a country, etc.); English-derived nickname (used by someone with a non-Western personal name); Western name
- —会話語vernacularism; colloquialism
- —イタ語Italian language (esp. as a school subject)
- —同系語cognate language
- —ポル語Portuguese language
- —言語権linguistic rights
- —福建語Hokkien (language); Fukien; Fujian
- —幽霊語ghost word
- —沖縄語Okinawan (language)
- —中古語Early Middle Japanese