language; word; tell

Builds 51 distinct compound words — ranked #53 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ゴ
訓 kun: かた.る

Mostly a suffix naming a language — 日本語, 英語 — or a word: 単語 vocabulary, 物語 a tale.

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

51compounds built

2,727times those words occur

#88by productivity alone

#43by how often it turns up

Where 語 leads

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

日sun; day日本語#5 物thing物語#8 学study; learning語学#15 中middle; inside中国語#18 本book; origin; main日本語#21 言say; word言語#23 国country外国語、中国語、カ国語#27 外outside; foreign外国語#61

Words built on 語

英語えいご1,300 uses

フランス語ふらんすご280 uses

日本語にほんご188 uses

言語げんご122 uses

単語たんご108 uses

語ご100 uses

物語ものがたり84 uses

ドイツ語73 uses

外国語62 uses

スペイン語57 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.