words / speech / to say / to talk
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言 character breakdown

two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
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"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)
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mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 言 as component

letter / mail / CL:封[feng1] / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random
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(pronoun) this; these / (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun) / (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
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oath / vow / to swear / to pledge
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to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)
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to set up / to arrange / to establish / to found / to display
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to alert / to warn / police
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Words with 言

every word and action (idiom)
one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
(idiom) to have a disagreement / to clash verbally
(idiom) it's a deal / that's settled then
each word carries weight / a promise must be kept (idiom)
one sentence / brief remark
(one's) every word and deed (idiom)

Sentences with 言

wàn
suì
 
 
ta̅
hái
kǒu
chu̅
kuáng
yán
 
 
zì
che̅ng
qí
tia̅n
dà
shèng
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