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Kanji: 言 Radical: 言 (ことば) : ゲン、ゴン; い(う)、こと; speech, word
Joyo grade: 2 Stroke count: 7 Index in Nelson dictionary: 4309 Index in Halpern dictionary: 1941
Japanese Reading English
他言語のたげんごの multilingual
伝言でんごん message, word
方言ほうげん dialect
ア センブリー言葉アセンブリーことばassembly language/
あっと言う間にあっというまに(exp) just like that (lit: in the time it takes to say "Ah!")/in the twinkling of an eye/in the blink of an eye/
あっと言わせるあっといわせる (v1) to startle/
オブジェクト指向言語オブジェクトしこうげんごObject-oriented language/
からと言ってからといってwhile it may be true that/just because/nevertheless/not necessarily/
コンパイラー言葉コンパイラーことばcompiler language/
して言えばしていえばif I must say (choose)/
ずばずば言うずばずばいう(v5) to speak one's mind/to speak very frankly/
そうかと言ってそうかといって(conj) but still/
だからと言ってだからといって(conj) while it may be true that/just because/nevertheless/not necessarily/
とやかく言うとやかくいう(v5) to say all kinds of things/to complain/
と言うというsaid/called thus/
と言うのはというのは(exp) (uk) this means/that is to say/because/
と言う訳だというわけだthis is why/this means/
と言えばといえば(exp) speaking of/
と言えるといえるit can be said/one can say (that)/
と言ってといって(exp) however/
と言わ れるといわれるto be called .../to be referred to as .../
プログラ ム言語プログラムげんご(n) programming language/
悪く言うわるくいう (v5) to deprecate/to traduce/
悪言あくげん (n) uncomplimentary remarks/slander/
悪口雑言あっこうぞうごんall kinds of malicious gossip/
意見を言ういけんをいう(exp) to state one's opinion/
遺言ゆいごん (n) will/testament/last request/(P)/
遺言執行者ゆいごんしっこうしゃ executor/
遺言者ゆいごんしゃtestator/
遺言書ゆいごんしょ (n) testament/
遺言状ゆいごんじょう(n) will/testament/
遺言補足書ゆいごんほそくしょcodicil/
一家言いっかげん (n) private opinion/personal view/personal opinion/
一家言いっかごと (n) private opinion/personal view/personal opinion/
一言いちげん(n) single word/
一言いちごん (n) single word/(P)/
一言ひとこと (n) single word/(P)/
一言も言わずひとこともい わずwithout saying a word/
一言一句いちごんいっく each word/word by word/
一言一行いちげんいっこう (n) just a word or an act/
一言居士いちげんこじ (n) a person who always has to have his say/a ready critic/
一言二言ひとことふたこと a word or two/(P)/
一言半句いちげんはんく (n) a word/a few words/(not even) a word/(not even) a syllable/
一言半句いちごんはんく(n) a word/a few words/(not even) a word/(not even) a syllable/
右と言えば左みぎといえばひだり widely spoken/(P)/
迂言うげん(n) roundabout explanation/
怨み言うらみごと(n) reproach/grudge/
怨言うらみごと(n) grudge/complaint/
怨言えんげん(n) grudge/complaint/
欧米諸言語おうべいしょげんごthe languages of Europe and America/
音声言語おんせいげんご a spoken language/
下町言葉したまちことば working-class accent or dialect/
仮言かげん reticence/
何と言うなんという (adj-pn,adv,exp) how (beautiful, etc)/
何を言うてんねんなにをいうてんねん(ksb:) (sl) What the hell are you saying?!/
何故かと言うとなぜかというと(exp) because/the reason why is/
佳言かげん (n) good words/
嘉言かげん(n) wise saying/
嘉 言善行かげんぜんこう good words and good deeds/
寡言かげん (n) reticence/taciturnity/
花言葉はなことば(n) language of flowers/
華言かげん (n) flowery words/
過言かごん (n) exaggeration/saying too much/
俄狂言にわかきょうげん(n) impromptu skit/(theatrical) farce/
雅言がげん (n) elegant words/refined diction/
絵空言えそらごとa fabrication/pipe dream/
格言かくげん (n) aphorism/
確言かくげん (n,vs) assertion/confirmation/
巻頭言かんとうげん(n) foreword/preface/prefatory note/
換言かんげん (n) in other words/
換言すればかんげんすれば (conj,exp) in other words/
甘言かんげん (n) cajolery/(P)/
甘言は偶人を喜ばすかんげんはぐうじんをよろこばす sweet words only please a fool (prov)/flattery works on puppets and fools/
簡単に言うとかんたんにいう とsimply put/
簡単に言えばかんたんにいえばsimply put/putting it simply/
間狂言あいきょうげん(n) comic interlude (in Noh)/
忌み言葉いみことば(n) taboo word/(P)/
忌言葉いみことば(n) taboo word/
棄言葉すてことばsharp parting remark/
偽言ぎげん (n) falsehood/
戯れ言ざれごと (n) a joke/
戯言ぎげん (n) nonsense/silly things/joke/
戯言ざれごと (n) nonsense/silly things/joke/
戯言たわごと (n) nonsense/silly things/joke/
逆さ言葉さかさことば(n) word said backwards/word of opposite meaning/
泣き言なきごと(n) complaint/
虚言きょげん(n) falsehood/
共産党宣言きょうさんとうせんげ んThe Communist Manifesto/
共通言語きょうつうげんご lingua franca/
共同宣言きょうどうせんげん joint declaration/
強いて言えばしいていえば if I'm forced to say something/if anything/
狂言きょうげん(n) play/drama/make-believe/(P)/
狂言回しきょうげんまわし(n) a supporting, but indispensable role/
狂言自殺きょうげんじさつ faked suicide/
極言きょくげん (n) be frank, go so far as to say/
禁反言きんはんげん(n) estoppel (patents)/
謹言きんげん (int,n) Yours Sincerely.../(P)/
金がものを言うかねがもの をいう(exp) money talks/
金言きんげん (n) wise saying/maxim/
苦しい言い訳くるしいいいわけlame (poor) excuse/
苦言くげん (n) candid (frank) advice/exhortation/
空言くうげん(n) falsehood/lie/
空言そらごと (n) falsehood/lie/
寓言ぐうげん(n) allegory/fable/
繰り言くりごと (n) tedious talk/repetition/complaint/(P)/
繰言くりごと(n) tedious talk/repetition/complaint/
計量言語学けいりょうげんごがくcomputational linguistics/
結言けつげん (n) summary/wrap-up/
堅い言葉かたいことばstiff speech/
建言けんげん(n,vs) right to speak/offering one's opinion to one's superior/proposal/
献言けんげん(n,vs) right to speak/offering one's opinion to one's superior/proposal/
見猿聞か猿言わ猿みざるきかざるいわざる(exp,n) see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil/
古言こげん(n) obsolete word/old proverb/
顧みて他を言うかえりみてたをいう(exp) to give an evasive answer/
御言みこと (n) the spoken words of the emperor or a noble/
公言こうげん(n) declaration/profession/(P)/
口言葉くちことば(n) words in common use/
口小言くちこごと(n) scolding/faultfinding/
巧言こうげん (n) flattery/
巧言令色こうげんれいしょく (n) flattery/honeyed words/
広言こうげん (n) boasting/bragging/talking big/
抗言こうげん (n) protest/
構造言語学こうぞうげんごがくstructural linguistics/
高言こうげん (n) boasting/bragging/talking big/
合い言葉あいことば(n) password/watchword/
合言葉あいことば(n) password/watchword/
国言葉くにことば(n) national language/local dialect/
国籍言語こくせきげんご national language/
恨み言うらみごと (n) grudge/
作り言つくりごと (n) fabrication/lie/fiction/
雑言ぞうごん (n) foul language/abuse/
三百代言さんびゃくだいげん (n) pettifogging lawyer/
刺の有る言葉とげのあることば stinging (barbed) words/harsh language/
至言しげん(n) wise saying/
視覚言語しかくげんご visual language/
自然言語しぜんげんご natural language/
失言しつげん (n,vs) using improper words/verbal slip/
実を言えばじつをいえば(adv) as a matter of fact/to tell the truth/
重言じゅうごん(n) succession of words of similar meaning/
祝言しゅうげん (n) wedding celebration/
緒言しょげん (n) foreword/preface/
緒言ちょげん (n) foreword/preface/
書き言葉かきことば(n) the written word/the written language/(P)/
助言じょげん(n) advice/suggestion/(P)/
助言じょごん (n) advice/suggestion/
助言を仰ぐじょげんをあおぐ(exp) to ask for advice/
助言者じょげんしゃadviser/counsellor/
助言者じょごんしゃadviser/counsellor/
序言じょげん (n) foreward/preface/introduction/
小言こごと (n) scolding/fault-finding/(P)/
照葉狂言てりはきょうげん type of theater which combines elements of Noh, kyogen, and kabuki with dances and popular songs/
証言しょうげん (n,vs) evidence/testimony/(P)/
詳言しょうげん (n) detailed explanation/
冗言じょうげん chatter/useless words/(P)/
食言しょくげん (n) eat one's words/break one's promises/
寝言ねごと(n) talking in sleep/nonsense/(P)/
寝言を言うねごとをいう (v5) to talk in one's sleep/
真言しんごん (n) mantra/quintessential word/Mantrayana/Shingon, Sino-Japanese esoteric Buddhism, originating in the eight century/
親の言う事を聞くおやのいうことをきく(exp) to obey one's parents/
進言しんげん (n) proposal/counsel/advice (to a superior)/
針を含んだ言葉はりをふくんだことばstinging (scathing) words/
人間環境宣言にんげんかんきょうせ んげんU.N. declaration on the human environment issued in Stockholm in 1972/
人権宣言じんけんせんげん(France's revolutionary era) Declaration of the Rights of Man/
仁輪加狂言にわかきょうげん (n) farce/extravaganza/
数理言語学すうりげんごがくmathematical linguistics/
寸言すんげん (n) pithy or short and witty remark/wisecrack/
世界人権宣言せかいじんけんせんげんUniversal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)/
世迷言よまいごと (n) grumbling/muttering/nonsense/
正しい言葉を遣うただしいことばをつか う(v5) to use the correct word/
誓言せいげん (n,vs) attestation/attest/vow or oath (made to the gods)/
切り狂言きりきょうげん (n) last act/
切言せつげん (n) urging/persuasion/declaration/
千言万語せんげんばんご (n) many words/
宣言せんげん (n,vs) declaration/proclamation/announcement/(P)/
宣言書せんげんしょ(written) declaration/
宣言的せんげんてきdeclarative/
宣言発表せんげんはっぴょうdeclaration/
践言せんげん(vs) keeping ones word/
前言ぜんげん (n) previous remarks/
早口言葉はやくちことば tongue twister/
造言ぞうげん (n) false report/lie/
造言飛語ぞうげんひご wild rumor/
俗に言うぞくにいう (v5) ``commonly referred to as....''/
俗言ぞくげん(n) colloquial language/
他の言に惑わされるたのげんにまどわされる(exp) to be led astray by others opinion/
他言たげん (n) telling others/revealing to others/letting out a secret/
他言たごん(n) telling others/revealing to others/letting out a secret/
多言たげん(n,vs) talkativeness/verbosity/garrulity/
多国籍言語たこくせきげんごmultilingual/in many languages/
体言たいげん (n) uninflected word/
替わり狂言かわりきょうげん(n) upcoming program/
代言だいげん (n) advocacy/pleading by proxy/speaking for another/attorney/
代言者だいげんしゃ advocate/
代言人だいげんにん(n) attorney/
大げさに言うおおげさにいう(v5) to exaggerate/
大まかに言えばおおまかに いえばgenerally speaking/
大言壮語たいげんそうご (n) big talk/boasting/bragging/
大納言だいなごん(n) chief councillor of state/
大和言葉やまとことば (n) the ancient or primordial Japanese language/
題言だいげん(n) prefatory words/epigraph/
託言たくげん (n) pretext/excuse/plea/
単純に言えばたんじゅんにいえばsimply put/putting it simply/
断言だんげん (n,vs) declaration/affirmation/
茶番狂言ちゃばんきょうげん farce/burlesque/low comedy/
忠言ちゅうげん (n) (good) advice/
直言ちょくげん (n) plain speaking/
痛言つうげん (n) cutting remark/biting (scathing, bitter) criticism/harsh words/
通し狂言とおしきょうげん (n) performance of an entire play/
通り言葉とおりことば(n) common saying/slang/argot/
定言ていげん (n) categorical statement/
提言ていげん (n) proposal/motion/
伝言つてごと (n) verbal message/rumor/word/
伝言でんごん (n) verbal message/rumor/word/(P)/
伝言板でんごんばん(n) message board/
唐人の寝言とうじんのねごと gibberish/
当たり狂言あたりきょうげん(n) a hit play/
当世風に言うととうせいふうに いうとas we would say nowadays/
当世流に言うとうせいりゅうに いう(v5) to put (it) in contemporary terms/
独り言ひとりごと(n) a soliloquy/a monologue/speaking to oneself/(P)/
独立宣言どくりつせんげんDeclaration of Independence/(P)/
内祝言ないしゅうげん(n) private wedding/
二言にごん (n) double dealing/double tongue/
二言ふたこと (n) two words/repetition/
二言目ふたことめ(n) the constant burden of some people's talk/
年中失言ねんじゅうしつげんalways saying the wrong thing/
能狂言のうきょうげん(n) noh farce/noh interlude/
罵言ばげん(n) abuse/
罵詈雑言ばりぞうごんvilification/vituperation/
買い言葉かいことば(n) tit for tat/
売り言葉うりことば(n) inflammatory words/
爆弾発言ばくだんはつげん (n) bombshell announcement (statement)/
発言はつげん(n) utterance/speech/proposal/(P)/
発言権はつげんけん(n) right to speak/
発言者はつげんしゃspeaker/
発言力はつげんりょく (n) forcefulness of speech/influential voice/
卑言ひげんslang expression/
彼の言う所かれのいうところwhat he says/
彼は学者と言うより寧ろ詩人だかれはがくしゃというよりむしろしじんだ (exp) He is not so much a scholar as a poet/
比較言語学ひかくげんごがく comparative linguistics/(P)/
非常事態を宣言するひじょうじたいを せんげんする(vs) to declare a state of emergency/
百万言ひゃくまんげん (n) saying something many times/
評言ひょうげん (n) a comment/critical remarks/
不言ふげん (n) silence/
不言実行ふげんじっこう action before words/work before talk/
不言不語ふげんふごsilence/
付言ふげん(n,vs) saying in addition/postscript/additional remarks/
浮言ふげん(n) groundless rumor/
父親に代わって言うちちおやにか わっていう(exp) to speak for one's father/
附言ふげん(n) additional remarks/postscript/
侮言ぶげん (n) insult/(P)/
物言いものいい (n) manner of speaking/objection/way of speaking/rumor/quarrel/protest/
物言うものいう(v5u) to talk/to carry meaning/
糞みそに言うくそみそにいう (v5) to verbally attack (violently)/to run down/to criticize severely/
僻言へきげんunreasonable talk/
別言べつげん(n) other words/
別言すればべつげんすれば in other words/
片言かたこと (n) a smattering/talk like a baby/speak haltingly/
片言へんげん(n) brief remark/few words/
片言交じりかたことまじりbabbling/
片言隻句へんげんせっく(not even) a few words/
片言隻語へんげんせきご (not even) a few words/
放言ほうげん (n) careless remark/
方言ほうげん (n) dialect/(P)/
褒め言葉ほめことば(n) words of praise/
褒言葉ほめことば(n) eulogy/compliment/
暴言ぼうげん (n) reckless remark/rash remark/abusive language/thoughtless words/
睦言むつごと(n) lovers' talk/whispered intimacies/
万言まんげん(n) many words/
漫言まんげん (n) rambling talk/
無言むごん (n) silence/(P)/
無言の行むごんのぎょうascetic practice of silence/
無言劇むごんげき(n) pantomime/
名言めいげん(n) wise saying/
明言めいげん (n) declaration/statement/
妄言ぼうげん (n) reckless remark/rash remark/abusive language/thoughtless words/
妄言もうげん(n) reckless remark/rash remark/abusive language/thoughtless words/
約言やくげん(n) summary/contraction/verbal agreement/
訳の分からない言葉わけのわからないことばmeaningless words/words that make no sense/
遊ばせ言葉あそばせことば(n) polite language used by women/
予言かねごと (n) prediction/promise/prognostication/
予言よげん(n) prediction/promise/prognostication/(P)/
予言者よげんしゃ(n) prophet/predictor/prognosticator/
預言よげん (n) prophecy/
預言者よげんしゃ(n) prophet/
揚言ようげん(n,vs) opening declaration/profession/declaration in public/proclamation/
用言ようげん(n) declinable word/
理想的な言語使用者りそうてきなげんごしようしゃideal speaker-hearer/
里言りげん (n) dialect/
里言葉さとことば(n) dialect/(historical) language used toward customers by women in the drinking-world establishment/
立言りつげん (n) expression of one's views/
略言りゃくげん (n) brief statement/summary/
流言りゅうげん (n) groundless rumor/
流言飛語りゅうげんひご (n) false rumors or report/
流行り言葉はやりことば popular expression/
流行言葉はやりことば buzzword/
例言れいげん (n) preface/foreword/
礼を言うれいをいう (v5) to thank/
話し言葉はなしことば(n) spoken word/(P)/
詫び言わびごと(n) apology/
佗言 わびごとsad words/anxious words/
俚言りげん(n) slang/dialect/
囃子言葉はやしことば words or utterances added to modulate the cadence of a song/
曰く言い難しいわくいいがたし(exp) It is hard to explain/It is hard to say/
眞言し んごん(arch) Shingon (Budd.)/
箴言しんげん(n) proverb/maxim/
綸言りんげん(n) imperial words/
誣言ふげん(n) calumny/slander/false charge/
諫言かんげん(n) admonition/
譫言 うわごと(n) talking in delirium/incoherent muttering/
讒言ざんげん(n) false charge/slander/defamation/
贅言ぜいげん(n) verbosity/redundancy/