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

語 character breakdown

surname Wu
I / my (old)

= + : In other characters: a mandarin colored pentagram.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.
(old) I; my

Characters with 語 as component

語 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 語

incantation / spell / enchantment / curse
ancient language / old expression
just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases
sign language
lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)
pleasant-sounding Wu dialect / also written 吳儂軟語|吴侬软语[Wu2 nong2 ruan3 yu3]
Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)
to inform / to tell
whispering in a low voice (idiom); murmuring
Taiwanese / Hokklo

Sentences with 語

語 currently does not appear in any sentence.