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言

  • yán (yan²) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄢˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • yan² Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • ян (i͡an, II) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • jin⁴ Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
  • ngun³ Cantonese, Taishanese, Wiktionary specific
  • nyien⁴ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • ngièn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • ngiàn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • ngian² Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
  • ie¹ Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • ngṳ̂ing Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • ngiòng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • giân Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • gân Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • gên Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • ngang⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁶yi Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • ienn² Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • yán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • yán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • yen² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • yán Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • yan Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • янь Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /jɛn³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • ian Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
  • /iɛn²¹/ Mandarin, Chengdu, IPA
  • yín (yin²) Mandarin, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄣˊ Mandarin, Bopomofo
  • yín Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄣˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • yín Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • yin² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • yín Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • yn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • инь Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /in³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • 各地讀音

Where it comes from

指事漢字：言是在舌字上添加標記表示舌頭的運動。表示說話時的舌是一張伸出口的舌頭。

《說文》錯誤的將其分析為形聲漢字：聲符 䇂 () + 意符 口 。

根據Schuessler (2007: 74)的說法，該詞衍生自語 (上古 *ŋaʔ, “說”) + -n名詞性後綴。

釋義

  1. 說，講 言語
  2. 談論，討論
  3. 陳述，描述；解釋
  4. 寫下，紀錄
  5. 詢問
  6. 告訴，告知
  7. 話語，所說的話 語言
  8. 看法，意見
  9. 學說，言論
  10. 字，詞
  11. 提案，想法，計畫
  12. 命令，法令
  13. 一句話
  14. obsolete 語助詞，無義
  15. obsolete 置於句首 陟彼南山，言采其蕨
  16. obsolete 置於句中 駕言出遊，以寫我憂。
  17. 姓氏

Similar: 云, 曰, 道, 說, 講, 話, 談, 呾

釋義

  1. 用於言言 (yányán)。

Thesaurus

釋義

Similar: 云, 曰, 道, 說, 講, 話, 談, 呾

In English

  • talk to communicate by speech

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"言." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%A8%80. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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言. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%A8%80

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"言." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%A8%80.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {言},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E8%A8%80},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}