- 言 nounspeechwords; talk; what is said
- 三 numeralverbmanymany; several; repeatedly; more than a few times
- 语 語 nounlanguage(bound form) language; dialect; speech; words; phonetic or morphological components of speech
- 四 adverbnounall around(in combination) used with two related terms to indicate various or all around, as in the expression sì xiāng bā zhèn meaning 'all the towns and villages'