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语言 (yǔ yán): meaning and stroke order

语言 (yǔ yán) means language, 门种.

语言

Simplified
语言
Traditional
語言
Pinyin
yǔ yán

Stroke order of 语言

语

  • yǔ dialect; language
  • yù (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 語

Stroke by stroke

言

  • yán words; speech
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 语言

  1. yǔ yán Traditional 語言
    • language
    • CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]

Radicals of the characters

语
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 讠 on the left, 吾 on the right
言
Radical 言 (Kangxi radical 149) · 7 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

语言 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 几百年后，这本书被翻译成了多种语言，而那群“帮忙破案”的苍蝇，也成了法医学课堂上常被提起的例子。

    jǐbǎi nián hòu zhè běn shū bèi fānyì chéng le duō zhǒng yǔyán ér nà qún bāngmáng pò'àn de cāngying yě chéng le fǎyīxué kètáng shàng cháng bèi tíqǐ de lìzi

    Centuries later the book was translated into many languages, and those flies that "helped solve the case" became an example often mentioned in forensic medicine classes.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 语言

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).