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方言

fāng yán

HSK 6 2-character word

What 方言 means

1. topolect
2. dialect

Other readings

方言 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Fāng yánthe first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong {扬雄|Yáng Xióng} in 1st century,

The characters in 方言

• 方fāngsquare; power or involution (math.); upright
• 言yánwords; speech; to say

Example sentences

• 他嘴里一口方言。
  Tā zuǐlǐ yīkǒu fāngyán.
  He speaks in a dialect.
• 我说格罗㝉根方言。
  I speak Gronings.
• 我对方言很感兴趣。
  I'm very interested in dialects.
• 吴语的方言差异很大。
  Different variants of Shanghainese differ greatly with each other.
• 格罗㝉根方言好难啊。
  Gronings is so difficult.
• 关于这种方言的资料很少。
  There is little information about this dialect.

Words containing 方言

• 次方言cì fāng yánsubdialect
• 视觉方言shì jué fāng yán(linguistics) eye dialect