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方言

方言

Chinese

 
square; quadrilateral; direction; just
 
to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad.
(方言)

Noun

方言

  1. dialect; topolect; regional variety (of a language, especially Chinese)
    天津方言   Tiānjīn fāngyán   Tianjin dialect
    廣州方言 / 广州方言   Guǎngzhōu fāngyán   Guangzhou Cantonese
  2. non-Standard Mandarin variety of Chinese (such as dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Min Nan, etc.)
    方言學校普通話 [MSC, trad.]
    方言学校普通话 [MSC, simp.]
    Zài jiā shuō fāngyán, zài xuéxiào shuō pǔtōnghuà. [Pinyin]
    (He) speaks the local dialect at home and Standard Mandarin at school.
  3. (religion) tongues
    方言恩賜 / 方言恩赐   fāngyán de ēncì   the gift of tongues

Verb

方言

  1. (literary) to open one's mouth to speak

Proper noun

方言

  1. Fangyan (the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms, written by Han dynasty scholar Yang Xiong)

Derived terms

  • 地區方言地区方言
  • 方言地圖方言地图
  • 方言學方言学 (fāngyánxué)
  • 方言志
  • 社會方言社会方言

Descendants

  • Dongan: фон-ян (fon-yan)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ほう
Grade: 2
げん
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

方言 (hiragana ほうげん, romaji hōgen)

  1. a dialect; a provincialism

See also

  • Category:Regional Japanese
  • - (べん) (ben, suffix for dialects)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

方言 (bang-eon) (hangeul 방언)

  1. Hanja form? of 방언, “dialect, patois”.