言
words / speech / to say / to talk
言
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亠
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二
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口
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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.
言 character breakdown
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
Characters with 言 as component
to complain / to sue / to tell
诉
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斥
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讠
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Susan Saint Bernard lives in a very remote place, the saline marshes in the space station's bathroom. Nevertheless, the market has reached her home too and set up a big advertising column. Susan Saint Bernard is really angry, complains a lot and immediately starts preparing to sue the company. She waves angrily with the folder she prepared at the advertising column.
subject / course / CL:門|门[men2] / class / lesson / CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2] / to levy / tax / form of divination
to speak / to explain / to negotiate / to emphasize / to be particular about / as far as sth is concerned / speech / lecture
to speak / to talk / to converse / to chat / to discuss
谈
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炎
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讠
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Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.
surname Tan
谈
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炎
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讠
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Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.
(bound form) to visit / to call on / to seek / to inquire / to investigate
to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense
谓
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胃
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讠
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Willy Walrus (w) used a hot water bottle (胃) to relief his stomach (胃) pain and it worked so well that he started selling those bottles himself. He even started an ad campaign and set up an advertising column (讠) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). There is a big picture of him saying (谓) how well the hot water bottle worked for him.
surname Wei
谓
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胃
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讠
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Willy Walrus (w) used a hot water bottle (胃) to relief his stomach (胃) pain and it worked so well that he started selling those bottles himself. He even started an ad campaign and set up an advertising column (讠) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). There is a big picture of him saying (谓) how well the hot water bottle worked for him.
sincere / authentic / really / truly
诚
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成
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讠
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) wants to visit engine, but he's held up at the entrance ((e)ng2). If he wants to enter he has to pass a lie detector test first. He readily takes the test and answers all questions very honestly (诚), and the progress bar mounted on top of an advertising column (讠) shows steady progress. At the very end however the progress bar is stuck at 99% (成) and won't progress regardless of how honest (诚) Charlie answers his questions.
to plan / to seek / scheme
谋
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某
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讠
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) put up an advertisement on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). On the advertising he is playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on an ukulele (某), but his plan (谋) is that many people will come to hear his concert and before the concert he can give a long speech about India's independence to a lot of people.
Words with 言
(sign hung in a shop) prices fixed – no bargaining (old) / having things decided by the will of a single individual / autocratic rule / (contrasted with 群言堂[qun2 yan2 tang2])
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice / words of enormous weight