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 yǔ yán language / CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3]
 yán yǔ words / speech / (spoken) language
 wén language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
 wén cí language / use of words / phraseology / articles / essays / writing
 yǔ dialect / language / speech
 Zhōng wén Chinese language
 wén zì character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL:個|个[ge4]
 Guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
 yǔ wén literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
 wài yǔ foreign language / CL:門|门[men2]
 zhōng wén wǎng Chinese language network
 Yuè yǔ Cantonese language
 Rì yǔ Japanese language
 cí huì vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word
 kǒu yǔ colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL:門|门[men2]
 yǔ zhòng language type (in a classification)
 yǔ zhǒng language type (in a classification)
 Hàn yǔ Chinese language / CL:門|门[men2]
 Huá yǔ Chinese language
 Hán yǔ Korean language (esp. in context of South Korea)
 Yǎ sī IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
 wài guó yǔ foreign language
 wài wén foreign language (written)
 Huá wén Chinese language / Chinese script
 fù dú (of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
 zhōng wén xì Chinese language department (of college)
 yǔ xì language family
 Hán wén hangul, Korean phonetic alphabet / Korean written language
 mǎn kǒu a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly
 Yīng yǔ jiāo xué English Language Teaching (ELT) / studying and teaching English
 bǐ huà to gesture / to use sign language / to gesticulate / to engage in body combat or martial art / to come to blows
 gǔ wén old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject
 Zhōng guó Rì bào China Daily (an English language newspaper)
 zāng huà profanity / obscene language / speaking rudely
 Cháo shàn Chaoshan, region in the east of Guangdong, encompassing the cities of Chaozhou 潮州市[Chao2 zhou1 Shi4] and Shantou 汕頭市|汕头市[Shan4 tou2 Shi4], with its own distinct language (Chaoshan Min 潮汕話|潮汕话[Chao2 shan4 hua4]) and culture
西 Xī bān yá yǔ Spanish language
 Fǎ wén French language
 mǎn zuǐ a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc)
 yǔ shēng spoken language / sound of speaking
 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
 shǒu wǔ zú dǎo lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom) / fig. to dance about / to express one's feelings in body language / to gesture animatedly / (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs
 duō yǔ yán polyglot / many language
 zhōng gǔ medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
 cū kǒu swear words / obscene language / foul language
西 Xī wén Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)
 qiè kǒu slang / argot / private language used as secret code
 bái huà spoken language / vernacular
 yǔ wén lǎo shī language and literature teacher
广 Guǎng dōng huà Cantonese language
 huì biān yǔ yán assembly language
 shǒu yǔ sign language
 cū huà vulgar language (esp. scatological insults) / uncultured speech
  language teacher
 mì yǔ secret talk / coded language / cypher / code
 yǔ gǎn a feel for language / instinctive understanding
 Hàn wén Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad
 Zàng yǔ Tibetan language
 chá yán guān sè to weigh up sb's words and observe their facial expression (idiom) / to discern what sb thinks from his body language
 gǔ yǔ ancient language / old expression
 jiǎn xiě to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language
 huì yǔ obscene language
 Zhōng guó huà (spoken) Chinese language
 Hán guó yǔ Korean language
 E2 wén Russian language
 Bā lì Pali, language of Theravad Pali canon / Barry (name) / Gareth Barry (1981-), English footballer
 Zàng wén Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language
 háng huà jargon / language of the trade
 píng yì amiable (manner) / unassuming / written in plain language / easy to take in
 wǎng luò yǔ yán Internet language / Internet slang / netspeak / cyberspeak
 Cháo xiǎn yǔ Korean language
 yǔ yán zhàng ài language barrier / speech impediment
 cí zǎo rhetoric / flowery language
 guān huà "officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin
 Xī là yǔ Greek language
 zì rán yǔ yán natural language
 Mǐn nán huà Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas
 Měng gǔ yǔ Mongolian language
 yǔ zú language branch
 yǐn yǔ secret language / codeword
 wén shì to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over
 Mǎn wén Manchurian written language
 Yuè nán yǔ Vietnamese language, Tiếng Việt
 jīn yì modern language version / modern translation / contemporary translation
 Mǎ lái yǔ Malaysian language
 yǎ yǔ sign language
 yùn yǔ rhymed language
 Hàn bàn abbr. for 國家漢辦|国家汉办[Guo2 jia1 Han4 ban4], Office of Chinese Language Council International
 chóng yì to translate again (i.e. to redo the same translation) / to translate repeatedly from one language to the next (so multiplying errors)
 gá phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds) / Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha / (dialect) final particle similar to 了[le5] (esp. in Yunnan)
 nóng mò zhòng cǎi thick and heavy in colors / to describe sth in colorful language with attention to detail (idiom)
 è yǔ shāng rén to insult / to direct bad language at sb / to slag off
 yǐn yuē qí cí equivocal speech / to use vague or ambiguous language
 fēng huā xuě yuè wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom) / effete language without substance / love affair / romance is in the air / dissipated life
 Fó lán dé of or relating to Flemish people, language or culture
 Xī bó lái wén Hebrew language
 A1 mǔ hā lā Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
 shū miàn yǔ written language
 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
 biāo zhǔn yǔ standard language
 Běi jīng Yǔ yán Xué yuàn Beijing Language Institute / former name of 北京語言大學|北京语言大学[Bei3 jing1 Yu3 yan2 Da4 xue2] Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU)
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