say; word

Builds 70 distinct compound words — ranked #23 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ゲン・ゴン
訓 kun: い.う・こと

Speech as such. 言語 language, 方言 a dialect, 言葉 a word — literally 'leaves of speech'.

The ten most common compounds built on 言. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

70compounds built

6,472times those words occur

#50by productivity alone

#11by how often it turns up

Where 言 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 言. Each one opens its own map.

一one一言#2 通pass through; commute言う通り#37 方direction; method; person言い方#38 語language; word; tell言語#53 発emit; depart; start発言#57

Words built on 言

言ういう4,708 uses

言葉ことば554 uses

そう言う125 uses

助言じょげん125 uses

言語げんご122 uses

こう言う87 uses

一言ひとこと82 uses

発言はつげん61 uses

言い訳いいわけ53 uses

伝言でんごん41 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.