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Chinese symbol for “wordy”

多言
duō yán
wordy; talkative

The closest CC-CEDICT match for wordy is 多言 (duō yán), defined as: wordy; talkative.

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Characters and stroke order

多 duō
much, many, multi-; more than, over
radical 36 ⼣ · 6 strokes
言 yán
words, speech; to speak, to say
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “wordy”

WordPinyinMeaning
繁芜 (繁蕪)fán wúwordy; verbose
啰唆 (囉唆)luō suolong-winded; wordy; troublesome; pesky
嘴碎zuǐ suìloquacious; garrulous; wordy

Related words

Other words that share a character with 多言.

WordPinyinMeaning
许多 (許多)xǔ duōmany; a lot of
多少duō shǎonumber; amount; somewhat
多年duō niánmany years; for many years
多数 (多數)duō shùmajority; most
多么 (多麼)duō mehow (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc)
语言 (語言)yǔ yánlanguage; 门 (mén),种 (zhǒng)
而言ér yán(typically preceded by 就… (jiù xx) or 对… (duì xx) etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...
发言 (發言)fā yánto make a speech; statement

See also: Japanese symbol for “wordy”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.