語 — kanji meaning “word”
語
word, speech, language
- Meanings
- word, speech, language
- On'yomi
- ゴ (go)
- Kun'yomi
- かた.る、かた.らう
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #301 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 149
- Chinese reading
- yǔ, yù — Chinese character page
Words with 語
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 英語 | えいご eigo | English (language) |
| 物語 | ものがたり monogatari | story; tale; narrative |
| 言語 | げんご gengo | language |
| 語る | かたる kataru | to talk about; to speak of; to tell |
| 日本語 | にほんご nihongo | Japanese (language) |
| 用語 | ようご yougo | term; terminology |
| 単語 | たんご tango | word; vocabulary |
| 国語 | こくご kokugo | national language |
| 落語 | らくご rakugo | rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller) |
| 語学 | ごがく gogaku | study of foreign languages |
| 語り | かたり katari | talk; recital |
| 語源 | ごげん gogen | origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology |
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