讠
yán

speech

讠 is a component form of 言, which is a pictograph of a tongue (舌) sticking out of a mouth.

Components

◎
characterless component

Depicts movement of the tongue coming out of the mouth.

舌
shé tongue
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 舌 than it was in ancient scripts.

訁 speech Traditional

Component form of 言, which is a pictograph of a tongue (舌) sticking out of a mouth.

Components

◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts movement of the tongue coming out of the mouth.

舌
舌 Iconic component
shé tongue
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 舌 than it was in ancient scripts.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode