Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲499 (商)

Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Action & Movement

言

言 speech, words, say

ごんべん gonben

7 strokesRadical of 70 kanjiPart of 73

Your ink in 言0% painted · 0 of 70 familiar

Origin · sourced

Ideogram指事

From 口 and ▽(possibly original form of 弋, marking location). Later: from 口 and 辛 or 䇂 (possibly mixed with 舌).

Source: Wiktionary, 言 (rev. 93383581), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth. This is the radical of language, literature, and the profound human act of telling our stories to one another through the ages.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates speaking, language, words, literature, or the act of communication and planning

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What it grows into

Built from 言, with sourced origins
一覧

Every kanji with 言 as its radical

Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

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