Dictionary › 吴语

吴语

Wú yǔ

2-character word Traditional 吳語

What 吴语 means

1. Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)

The characters in 吴语

• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 语yǔdialect; language; speech

Example sentences

• 吴语的方言差异很大。
  Different variants of Shanghainese differ greatly with each other.
• 我会普通话、西南官话、吴语和西班牙语。
  Wǒ huì pǔtōnghuà, xīnán guānhuà, Wúyǔ hé Xībānyáyǔ.
  I can speak Standard Chinese (Putonghua), Southwestern Mandarin, Wu Chinese, and Spanish.

Sounds the same

Read Wú yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 无语to remain silent; to have nothing to say; (colloquial) speechless