| 語 | 848C45 60A.40-3 | 部居  | 畫數 14 | ㄩˇ [yU3] (*ㄩˋ [yU4] ). | ||
| N. | (1) A word, phrase: 語辭 word; 成語 a common or accepted phrase; 連語 a compound word (bisyllabic); 外來語 imported word or phrase. (2) A saying, proverb: 俗語 proverb, popular saying; 妙語 a clever line; 警語 a striking saying; 謎語 a riddle; 雙關語 a pun. (3) Language: 言語 language, words spoken; 口語 colloquial speech; 土語 local patois; 國語 national spoken language; 英語，日語 English, Japanese. (4) Means of communication: 手語 language of hand signals; 目語 signal by wink or glance; 鳥語 bird's twitter. | |||||
| V.i. | To speak: 自言自語 talk to oneself; 不言不語 keep silent. | |||||
| V.t. | (*[yU4]) (LL) to tell (s.o.), to speak of (s.t.): 吾語汝 let me tell you; 語其友 tells his friend; 不可以語人 must not tell others; 語道 speak of and discuss the truth. | |||||
| Words | 1. 語病 [yU3bing4], n., mistake in use of words, a rhetorical error. 2. 語冰 [yU3bing1], phr., 夏蟲不可以語冰 (AC) do not speak of ice to insects that live only one summer. 3. 語氣 [yU3qi4] ([yU3qi0]), n., tone of one's words. 4. 語調（兒） [yU3diao4]([er0]), n., sentence intonation. 5. 語法 [yU2fa3], n., grammar (usu.文法). 6. 語彙 [yU3hui4], n., vocabulary. 7. 語助詞 [yU3zhu4ci2], n., a particle which serves only to relate words, an auxiliary. 8. 語句 [yU3jU4], n., sentence, line. 9. 語錄 [yU3lu4], n., transcripts of master's sayings by disciples (Budd. or Suhng Confucianists), largely in vernacular style. 10. 語聲兒 [yU3sheng0er0], n., sound of voice. 11. 語系 [yU3xi4], n., linguistic family. 12. 語勢 [yU3shi4], n., tone or force of one's words, apart from the words themselves. 13. 語體文 [yU2ti3wen2], n., vernacular style of writing (also called 白話文 [bai2hua4wen2]). 14. 語次 [yU3ci4], phr., while one was speaking. 15. 語詞 [yU3ci2], n., a word, as dist. 字 [zi4]; a particle, see [yU3zhu4ci2]↑; language used by s.o. (coarse, etc.) 16. 語族 [yU3zu2], n., linguistic family. 17. 語言 [yU3yan2], n., (1) language; (2) one's use of language (refined, vulgar, etc.); 語言學 philology, science of language, linguistics. 18. 語意 [yU3yi4], n., meaning suggested by the words; 語意學 semantics. 19. 語音 [yU3yin1], n., accent; pronunciation; voice; 語音學 phonetics. 20. 語源學 [yU3yUan2xUe2], n., etymology. | |||||