語 (jyu5) — sign; signal in Cantonese
jyuˏ₅語简 语
Mandarin Pinyin: yu3
Meaning of 語
nounsign; signal
nounsaying; proverb; set phrase
nounspeak; say; talk; tell
nounlanguage; speech; expression; words
Example Sentences with 語
哪裡，我的漢語不太好。
No, my Chinese isn't that good.
波斯語好易學！
Farsi is very easy to learn!
近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.
旅遊業者不須擔心少了某種噱頭十足的用語而流失生意
The travel industry should not be unduly worried about businesses badly affected due to the cessation in the use of gimmicky linguistics of their promotions.
dongˉ¹當sai3gaai3jyu5世ngaam1ngaam1界cyun4jap6語zungˉ¹啱gwok˗₃啱go2zan6傳入中國嗰陣
When Esperanto had just been introduced to China...
Words Containing 語
通用語言tung1 jung6 jyu5 jin4
lingua franca
敬語ging3 jyu5
words of courtesy/politeness; respectful remarks
語法術語jyu5 faat3 seot6 jyu5
grammatical term
語癌jyu5 ngaam4
extremely poor formulation, big grammatical mistake (Lit. cancerous language)
粵語殘片jyut6 jyu5 caan4 pin2
old Cantonese films, specifically those made in black and white in Hong Kong before the 1960s
古典語言gu2 din2 jyu5 jin4
classical language
粵語拼音jyut6 jyu5 ping3 jam1
Cantonese romanisation
標語biu1 jyu5
slogan; poster
不雅用語bat1 ngaa5 jung6 jyu5
coarse language
廈語haa6 jyu5
Amoyese, the Xiamen / Amoy language, the dialect from 廈門 Xiamen (Amoy) located in Fujian province 福建省
美國手語mei5 gwok3 sau2 jyu5
American Sign Language (ASL)
言語jin4 jyu5
speak; talk; answer | [粵] 出聲, 話聲, 開聲
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