Sinograph Addenda · Signs
speech
| Name | speech |
|---|---|
| Reads | yán |
| Means | speech, words; to speak |
| Taught in | 06 · Knowing and walking |
Where it comes from
The mouth 口 under rising lines — sound on its way out, by the received account. Rank 40 as the word “speech, to speak,” and the meaning-component of the script’s whole talking family. Taught in the knowing-and-walking chapter.
How to remember it
The mouth, mid-sentence — lines of speech already leaving it. Wherever you see it packed into a character, someone is talking.
In the wild
urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:013:7a · license: attribution.