IDENTITY
语yǔlanguage; to speak
HSK 1Top 290
CORE MEANING
language; to speak
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.languageHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 讠speech radical (yán)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰讠吾
- speech radical
- gives the sound yǔ
USAGE
Common words
汉语hànyǔChinese (language)
英语yīngyǔEnglish
语法yǔfǎgrammar
Graded examples
我学习汉语。Wǒ xuéxí hànyǔ.HSK1
I study Chinese.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Words (讠) spoken by "me" (吾) — language.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #290
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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