言

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yán

words; speech; to say; to talk

Examples

在商言商。

Business is business.

行胜于言。

Deeds are better than words.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.