曰
How to Say
How to Write
Meaning: to speak
💡 A mouth with a tongue sticking out to speak: 曰.
Compounds
Character Story & Explanation
Imagine a detective tracing the character 曰 (yuē) back to its origins. In oracle bone script, it depicts a mouth with a tongue or words emerging, meaning 'to say' or 'to speak'. Unlike 说 (shuō), 曰 is classical and often found in ancient texts like the Analects. It appears in the radical form of many characters related to speech, such as 唱 (chàng, to sing).
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