dialect / language / speech

= + : Yu the Great is seeing some language advertisement on an advertising column in the space station. She decides to paint a big mandarin colored pentagram over the language ad.
to tell to

语 character breakdown

surname Wu
I / my (old)

= + : In other characters: a mandarin colored pentagram.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
(old) I; my

Characters with 语 as component

语 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 语

subject (in grammar)
to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent
one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct
see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4]
to make a pun / to have a double meaning / double entendre
(literary) not to speak
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artificial language / constructed language / conlang
phrase (linguistics)
(idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on
to hit the mark with a comment (idiom) / to say sth spot on
(idiom) to have one's words turn out to be (tragically) prophetic

Sentences with 语

语 currently does not appear in any sentence.