言
yányín HSK2

speech

言 yán frequency
speech noun
words; talk; what is said

你怎么能说这么多谎言？

nǐ zěn​me néng shuō zhè​me duō huǎng yán?

How can you tell so many lies?

[particle] preposition
(literary) a function word used at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence to balance the rhythm of the line, carrying no specific meaning
to say verbadverb
to speak; to talk; to state or tell
character verbadjective
a single Chinese character or syllable, especially when counting length in poetry or essays
surname
a Chinese surname
theory
a school of thought; doctrine; words of a particular teacher or sect
言 yín
[archaic]
used in the reduplicated form 言言 yín​yín, meaning to speak in a solemn or high-spirited manner

Frequency
Character
Written text
355th most common 621.7 per million
Movie subtitles
511th most common 281.3 per million appears in 73% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.1 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
158.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+8A00

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)