words, speech; speak, say; Kangxi radical 149
The corpus record — Literary Chinese
言
yán
words, speech; speak, say; Kangxi radical 149
Every figure on this page is a live query of the corpus record.
Where it lives
- Analects (Lunyu) 130 · 81.13/10k
- Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 107 · 60.83/10k
- Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 64 · 46.45/10k
- Mencius 117 · 32.99/10k
What it meant — Unihan character definitions
In the wild
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
- 言 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 十章
6 of 418 attestations shown.
Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).