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JLPT N4 SL2 7 strokes Frequency: #83

Meanings

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Radicals

言

Decomposition

⿱亠⿱二口

Etymology

Ideographic: A tongue sticking out of a mouth 口

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

6 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゲン gen

ゴン gon

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

い i

こと koto

Words Using This Kanji

1113 words total

Other (20 words)

言い知れないいいしれない

indescribable

えも言えぬえもいえぬ

indescribable

社会言語学会しゃかいげんごがっかい

Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences

日本言語学会にほんげんごがっかい

Linguistic Society of Japan

稜威言別いつのことわき

Notes on the Songs of the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki (by Tachibana Moribe, 1850)

言海げんかい

Genkai (Japanese dictionary; publ. 1886)

言志四録げんししろく

Genshi Shiroku (book of sayings by Satō Issai)

奴隷解放宣言どれいかいほうせんげん

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

言泉げんせん

Gensen (Japanese dictionary; publ. 1921-29)

also called

to be called ...

what kind of

to speak one's mind

because ...

to say this and that (about)

そうかと言ってそうかといって

but still

と言えばといえば

speaking of ...

言えるいえる

to be possible to say

からと言ってからといって

just because

こう言うこういう

such

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