语 · yǔ
language, words; saying, expression
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
language, words; saying, expression
- Mandarin
- yǔ
- Cantonese
- jyu5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8BED
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 语
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 1 matches
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Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #393408 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #393407 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: shekitten
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
語
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yǔ
- kCantonese
- jyu5
- kDefinition
- language, words; saying, expression
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8A9E
- kTGH
- 2013:1707
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yǔ 1411.060 · yù 1414.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yǔ 447.210
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yǔ(261)