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View 語 kanji details →Results for “語”
word; language; speech
talk, recital; narration; topic
to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate; to recite, to chant; to indicate, to show
study of foreign languages; linguistics
origin of a word, derivation of a word, etymology
words, phrases
vocabulary, lexicon, lexis, terminology
way of reciting, way of telling a story
tone, manner of speaking
narrator, storyteller, reciter
to talk, to tell, to recite, to pledge, to conspire with
- 語り合うかたりあう
to talk together
- 語り継ぐかたりつぐ
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation, to hand down
- 語尾ごび
(inflectional) ending of a word; end of a sentence
- 語調ごちょう
tone (of voice), parlance, style; intonation, accent
- 語呂ごろ
sound (of a sentence), euphony
- 語法ごほう
diction, grammar, syntax, usage, wording
- 語感ごかん
sense of language; feeling of a word, impression a word makes, nuance
- 語録ごろく
analects, sayings
- 語義ごぎ
meaning of a word
- 語り部かたりべ
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
- 語らいかたらい
talk, chat; troth, lovers' vow
- 語り伝えるかたりつたえる
to hand down, to pass on (story or tradition)
- 語族ごぞく
language family, family of languages
- 語弊ごへい
faulty statement, misleading statement, misunderstanding caused by a misleading statement
- 語り草かたりぐさ
story, topic (on everyone's lips), (the stuff of) legend
- 語り明かすかたりあかす
to talk the night away, to talk all night
- 語頭ごとう
first part of a word
- 語り物かたりもの
a narrative
- 語数ごすう
number of words
- 語釈ごしゃく
explanation of a word (phrase, term, etc.), interpretation of a word
- 語順ごじゅん
word order
- 語意ごい
meaning of a word
- 語類ごるい
parts of speech
- 語根ごこん
root, root word
- 語形ごけい
word form
- 語脈ごみゃく
word linkage
- 語中ごちゅう
middle of a word; within a word
- 語勢ごせい
emphasis (e.g. placed on a word), stress, tone (of voice)
- 語音ごおん
sound of a word, sounds of speech, phoneme