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

語 character breakdown

surname Wu
I / my (old)

= + : In other characters: a mandarin colored pentagram.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
(old) I; my

Characters with 語 as component

語 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 語

in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable
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
(literary) not to speak
A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆[Liu2 Yi4 qing4]
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(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
see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4]
to make a pun / to have a double meaning / double entendre

Sentences with 語

語 currently does not appear in any sentence.