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Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
5 years ago

We learned that 信 is a letter, so we write 言 inside the letter.

Tony Kinninger
Tony Kinninger
4 years ago

Speech has volume. This character looks like when you turn up the volume, at the bottom there is a “cero”, then you turn it up 2 lines, until you reach the top or the roof.

Tara Nair
Tara Nair
4 years ago

I know that this character means speech because it kind of looks like text on a paper, thus reading a speech

Damya Bhatia
Damya Bhatia
4 years ago

mouth radical, the speech that you give/say has a lot of *lines*

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
4 years ago

how i remember this character: the way there are many horizontal lines stacked on top of each other looks like lines in a book page.

Oyunbolor Buyannemekh
Oyunbolor Buyannemekh
4 years ago

It looks like someone who is stretching hands two sides and standing on the stand to say WORDS.

Mahrukh Shaikh
Mahrukh Shaikh
3 years ago

the lines look like lines of words from a paper and the mouth part 口 at the bottom is speaking those words (言)

Yuni Song
Yuni Song
2 years ago

The character itself looks like words written on paper.

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago

The whole thing looks like a clipboard with the writing of a script. One would use the clip board to read their speech.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

the character looks like the right part of 信 (letter), and a letter is SPEECH/WORDS written out.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

the character looks like the right part of 信 (letter), and a letter is SPEECH/WORDS written out.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

the character looks like the right part of 信 (letter), and a letter is SPEECH/WORDS written out.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

the character looks like the right part of 信 (letter), and a letter is SPEECH/WORDS written out.

Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph
1 year ago

Write it in repetition, horizontal line three times, like san 三,and then a box under them, like kou 口. Just don’t forget the dash on top of the first line.

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NYU Shanghai
ananya
ananya
1 year ago

It looks like a stack of papers on a table, that you can read as a “speech”

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Sara
Sara
1 year ago

Looks like four lines of text above a mouth radical, so a mouth that’s saying words

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Haya
Haya
1 year ago

This character looks like letters placed on top of a table

Mishka
Mishka
1 year ago

It looks like a lot of letters have piled up on a table and they carry so many unopened “words”

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Viktor
Viktor
1 year ago

It looks like something written on paper.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Anna
Anna
1 year ago

It looks like a button to turn up the volume (increase SPEECH).

School Affiliation
NYU Abu Dhabi
Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
1 year ago

Words have many many layers hence the layering of the character.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Linh Hoang
Linh Hoang
1 year ago

言 is words. If a person write some words for someone else, it becomes a letter 信 (yin)

Catherine
Catherine
5 months ago

There’s a small pen mark on top, followed by 3 lines of “text”, then the mouth radical to show that someone is speaking.

Temuun-Orgil
Temuun-Orgil
3 months ago

the character looks like there are vocals coming out of the mouth hence the meaning speech

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Hannia
Hannia
9 days ago

To me this is an easier character to memorize, I just think of 3 lines, the top one with an accent and a square in the bottom.

Amelie Woc
Amelie Woc
8 days ago

I like remembering this character by thinking of how a SPEECH has lines and there are 2 lines between the top component and the bottom. The bottom component is KOU which means MOUTH and you use it to say WORDS of a SPEECH.

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Brenna
Brenna
8 days ago

I try to remember it as the multiple horizontal line above the mouth character shoes the layers and numbers of practice you did to prepare for your SPEECH