dialect / language / speech

= + : Yu the Great is seeing some language advertisement on an advertising column in the space station. She decides to paint a big mandarin colored pentagram over the language ad.
to tell to

语 character breakdown

surname Wu
I / my (old)

= + : In other characters: a mandarin colored pentagram.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
(old) I; my

Characters with 语 as component

语 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 语

language / CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]
to speak / to tell
words / speech / (spoken) language
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
intonation / tone of voice / CL:個|个[ge4]
Chinese language / CL:門|门[men2]
western language / Spanish (language)
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation / idiom / proverb / saying / adage / CL:條|条[tiao2],本[ben3],句[ju4]
aphasia or aphemia (loss of language)
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable
Cantonese language
beautiful wordage
agglutinative language (e.g. Turkish and Japanese)

Sentences with 语

语 currently does not appear in any sentence.