The 言 radical, “speech”
言
Read yán. 7 strokes.
Inside a character it is also written 讠.
Here are 15 common characters that all carry this radical. It is painted red in each of them; what stays black is what tells them apart.
- shuō to speak
- jì to calculate
- zhèng certificate
- huà dialect
- lùn opinion
- rèn to recognize
- xǔ to allow
- shè to set up
- jì to record
- gāi should
- ràng to yield
- shí to know
- yì to comment on
- tiáo to harmonize
- qǐng to ask
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.