in English

yán
words / speech / to say / to talk

Stroke order

Le caractère 言 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 言 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “我该做什么呢?”我自言自语道。

    "What shall I do?" I said to myself.

  • 「這是阿拉伯文嗎?」「不是,這是維吾爾文,一種中國西北部的語言。」

    "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."

  • C语言的变量名是区分大小写的。

    Variable names in C are case sensitive.

  • FSI人员:“长官,有一个网站,任何人都可以加上一个外国语言的句子!“。FSI主席:“什么? 炸掉他们!“。

    FSI officer: "Sir, there is a website where ANYONE can add a sentence in a foreign language!". FSI president: "What?! Bomb them!".

  • JavaScript是一种编程语言。

    JavaScript is a programming language.

  • Tatoeba: 因为语言意义不只是单字的总合。

    Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.

  • Tatoeba确实是多语言的。所有的语言都互相关联。

    Tatoeba is really multilingual. All the languages are interconnected.

  • 一时失言常常会带来意想不到的结果。

    A slip of the tongue often brings about unexpected results.

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