語

語 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一一口 (YRMMR), four-corner 0166₁, composition ⿰訁吾)

• 𡂂, 𢣸, 𤻭, 𠑕, 𫤋, 𡈰

• 语 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 1163, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35533
• Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3974, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8A9E

Historical forms of the character 語
Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaʔ, *ŋas) : semantic 言 + phonetic 吾 (OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː).

Compare Tibetan ངག (ngag, “speech”), Burmese ညာ (nya, “to lie, to tell an untruth”), and Burmese ကြော်ငြာ (krau-ngra, “to shout, to advertise”).

According to Schuessler (2007), 言 (OC *ŋan, “to speak; speech; talk”) is 語 (OC *ŋaʔ) with a nominal n-suffix.

語

1. to speak; to say

   • 子不語怪，力，亂，神。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子不语怪，力，乱，神。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐ bù yǔ guài, lì, luàn, shén. [Pinyin]

     The Master spoke not of oddities, feats of strength, disorders, and spirits.

2. (of an animal) to chirp; to hoot
3. speech; language
4. (linguistics) spoken language (contrary to written language 文)
5. expression; words
6. saying; proverb; set phrase
7. movement or signal which transmits information
8. chirping; tweet

語

1. ^† to tell; to inform

   • 子好遊乎？吾語子遊。人知之亦囂囂、人不知亦囂囂。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子好游乎？吾语子游。人知之亦嚣嚣、人不知亦嚣嚣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ hào yóu hū? Wú yù zǐ yóu. Rén zhī zhī yì xiāoxiāo, rén bùzhī yì xiāoxiāo. [Pinyin]

     Are you, Sir, fond of travelling to the different courts? I will tell you about such travelling. If a prince acknowledge you and follow your counsels, be perfectly satisfied. If no one do so, be the same.

• “語”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: ご (go, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぎょ (gyo)
• Kun: かたらう (katarau, 語らう, Jōyō)^{←かたらふ (katarafu, 語らふ, historical)}; かたる (kataru, 語る, Jōyō); ことば (kotoba, 語); つげる (tsugeru, 語げる)

From Middle Chinese 語 (MC ŋɨʌX).

• (Tokyo) ご​ [góꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞]

語(ご) • (go) 

1. (linguistics) a word, term

   Synonyms: 言葉 (kotoba), 単語 (tango)

2. a proverb

   Synonyms: 諺 (kotowaza), 成句 (seiku)

語(ご) • (-go) 

1. language of, -ese, -ish

   日(に)本(ほん)語(ご) ― nihongo ― Japanese

   英(えい)語(ご) ― eigo ― English

   スペイン語(ご) ― supeingo ― Spanish

語(ご) • (go) 

1. talk, speak
2. word, language, term
3. Short for 物語 (monogatari): story, tale, narrative

From Middle Chinese 語 (MC ŋɨʌX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɘ(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [어(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 語 (eumhun 말씀 어 (malsseum eo))

1. Hanja form^? of 어 (“language of; -ese; -ish”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

語: Hán Việt readings: ngữ[1][2][3]
語: Nôm readings: ngỡ[1][2][3][4], ngửa[1][2][3][4], ngữ[1][2][3], ngứa[1][3], ngợ[3][4], gỡ[1]

1. chữ Hán form of ngữ (“language”).
2. Nôm form of ngỡ (“to think that”).

• 國語 (quốc ngữ)
• 語羅 (ngỡ là)