言 yán

1. yán verb to speak / to say / said
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 言 means 说. For example, 自言自语 'talk to oneself' (CCI p. 24; GHC '言' 1, 2; Kroll 2015 '言' 1).
2. yán noun language / talk / words / utterance / speech
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 忠言逆耳 'honest advice, [although] unpleasant to the ear[, induces good conduct]', from Han Feizi's Wai Chu Shuo Zuo Shang (DCP 'Z137'; Kroll 2015 '言' 2).
3. yán noun Kangxi radical 149
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: To speak (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
4. yán particle a particle with no meaning
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: (GHC '言' 5; Kroll 2015 '言' 3)
5. yán noun phrase / sentence
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '言' 2a)
6. yán noun a word / a syllable
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '言' 4; Kroll 2015 '言' 2b)
7. yán noun a theory / a doctrine
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 学说 (GHC '言' 3; Kroll 2015 '言' 4)
8. yán verb to regard as
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '言' 5)
9. yán verb to act as
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '言' 5a)

Contained in

• 谄言(諂言) fawning speech
• 世界人权宣言(世界人權宣言) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 尽言(盡言) saying everything / to speak out fully
• 以人废言(以人廢言) to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects)
• 甜言美语(甜言美語) sweet words, beautiful phrases / hypocritical flattery
• 把酒言欢(把酒言歡) to drink and chat merrily
• 自然语言处理(自然語言處理) natural language processing (NLP)
• 巧言 pleasant but unrealistic speech
• 大言不惭(大言不慚) to boast shamelessly / to talk big
• 满口谎言(滿口謊言) to pour out lies
• 言多必失 if you say too much, you're bound to slip up at some point
• 狂言 ravings / delirious utterances ; kyōgen
• 谎言(謊言) a lie
• 要言不烦(要言不煩) to explain in simple terms / succinct / concise
• 高言 masterful language
• 苦不堪言 to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
• 元语言(元語言) metalanguage
• 交浅言深(交淺言深) comparative strangers share intimate words
• 面向对象语言(面嚮對象語言) object oriented language
• 问言(問言) to ask
• 言行若一 one's actions are in keeping with what one says
• 而言 with regard to (preceding phrase)
• 不法之言 words that are not exemplary
• 语言政策(語言政策) language policy
• 网络语言(網絡語言) Internet language / Internet slang / netspeak / cyberspeak
• 次方言 subdialect
• 汉方言(漢方言) Han Chinese dialects
• 谣言惑众(謠言惑衆) to mislead the public with rumors / to delude the people with lies
• 好言好语(好言好語) kind words / sweet talk / coaxing manner
• 缄口不言(緘口不言) lips sealed and not saying anything / to omit mention (of a non-person or embarrassing topic)
• 言谈林薮(言談林藪) articulate in speech / eloquent
• 危言耸听(危言聳聽) frightening words to scare people / alarmist talk / reds under the beds
• 徒讬空言(徒託空言) vainly relying on empty words
• 酒后吐真言(酒後吐真言) after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas
• 以言代法，以权压法(以言代法，以權壓法) to substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it / completely lawless behavior
• 妖言惑众(妖言惑眾) to mislead the public with rumors / to delude the people with lies

Also contained in

四言诗 、 延伸性标记语言 、 醒世恒言 、 吴方言 、 爪哇语言虛擬機 、 虚拟现实置标语言 、 七言诗 、 计算机语言 、 社会语言学 、 六字真言 、 绝言真如 、 低级语言 、 人权和公民权宣言 、 言偃 、 丁佛言

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 298
• 《言部》 Yán Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 278
• 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 224
• 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 203
• 卷一百九十六 列傳第八十四 張璁 桂萼 方獻夫 夏言 Volume 196 Biographies 84: Zhang Cong, Gui E, Fang Xianfu, Xia Yan History of Ming 明史 — count: 199
• 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 195
• 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 150
• 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 130
• 卷三百〇八 列傳第一百九十六 奸臣 胡惟庸 陳瑛 嚴嵩 周延儒 溫體仁 馬士英 Volume 308 Biographies 196: Treacherous Officials - Hu Weiyong, Chen Ying, Yan Song, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Ma ShiYing History of Ming 明史 — count: 124
• 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 123

Collocations

• 薄言 (薄言) 薄言采之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧芣苢 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Fu Yi — count: 14
• 言采 (言採) 薄言采之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧芣苢 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Fu Yi — count: 14
• 愿言 (願言) 願言則嚏 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧終風 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Zhong Feng — count: 6
• 言归 (言歸) 言告言歸 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧葛覃 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Ge Tan — count: 6
• 酌言 (酌言) 酌言嘗之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧瓠葉 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Hu Ye — count: 4
• 言言 (言言) 崇墉言言 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧皇矣 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Huang Yi — count: 4
• 言思 (言思) 願言思子 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧二子乘舟 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Er Zi Cheng Zhou — count: 4
• 言观 (言觀) 言觀其旂 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧庭燎 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - Ting Liao — count: 3
• 驾言 (駕言) 駕言出遊 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧泉水 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Quan Shui — count: 3
• 章言 (章言) 一章言其完也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧豳‧東山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Dong Shan — count: 3