Kanji1 / 14
語 kanji
word, speech, language
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
かたるかたらう
Words with 語
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —畳語syllable repetition (indicating plurals)
- —人語human speech
- —壮語bragging; exaggeration
- —勅語imperial rescript
- —低語whispering; murmuring; talking in a low voice
- —倒語inverted word; verlan
- —反語irony; rhetorical question
- —蛮語language spoken by the Emishi; languages spoken by the nanban during the Edo Period (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch); foreign language
- —卑語vulgar word; vulgar expression; vulgarism; profanity; swear word
- —不語silence
- —仏語Buddhist term; teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha
- —兵語military term
- —米語American English
- —補語complement
- —母語mother tongue; native language; protolanguage; parent language
- —訳語translation equivalent; equivalent word in translation; translation (of a word); gloss
- —洋語Western language; Japanese word of Western origin
- —類語quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable)
- —冷語hard words
- —連語compound word; phrase; collocation; copula