| 言 | ||
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| 言 (U+8A00) "speech" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yán | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄢˊ | |
| Wade–Giles: | yen2 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yìhn | |
| Jyutping: | jin4 | |
| Japanese Kana: | ゲン gen / ゴン gon (on'yomi) い-う i-u / こと koto (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 언 eon | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (Left) 言字旁 yánzìpáng (Bottom) 言字底 yánzìdǐ | |
| Japanese name(s): | 言偏/ごんべん gonben | |
| Hangul: | 말씀 malsseum | |
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Radical 149 or radical speech (言部) meaning 'speech' is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 861 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
言 is also the 166th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified component form 讠 listed as its associated indexing component.