Kanji
N5 14 strokes Grade 2 freq #301

word, speech, language

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

speech gen

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

English (language)
Japanese (language)
story; tale
language
term; terminology
national language
foreign language
study of foreign languages
rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling
word; vocabulary

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to talk; to tell
to talk about; to speak of
to tell (a story); to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.)
talk; recital
way of reciting; way of telling a story

Example sentences

He can handle English well.

He has increased his proficiency in English greatly.

There are many Americans who can speak Japanese.

Does someone here speak Japanese?