Chinese language

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL: 種｜种, 席, 句, 口, 番

Chinese language / CL: 門｜门

foreign language / CL: 門｜门

English (language)

English (language)

language / CL: 門｜门, 種｜种

Mandarin (common language) / Putonghua (common speech of the Chinese language) / ordinary speech

character / script / writing / written language / writing style / phraseology / CL: 個｜个

foreign language (written)

vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word

colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門｜门

words / speech / (spoken) language

Chinese language

to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable

French (language)

Japanese language

Spanish language

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

Arabic (language)

Russian (language)

misunderstanding / estrangement / (language etc) barrier

to grasp / to hold / to operate / to manage / to control / to steer / to exercise / to drill (practice) / to play / to speak (a language)

Cantonese language

dialect / language / speech

Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)

IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)

old language / the Classics / Classical Chinese as a literary model, esp. in Tang and Song prose / Classical Chinese as a school subject

Russian language

Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC

(language learning) conversation / dialog / to converse (in a non-native language) / (computing) session / CL: 個｜个, 次

TOEFL / Test of English as a Foreign Language

form (used in programming languages such as Visual Basic and Delphi to create a GUI window)

Chaoshan, region in the east of Guangdong, encompassing the cities of Chaozhou 潮州市 and Shantou 汕頭市｜汕头市, with its own distinct language (Chaoshan Min 潮汕話｜潮汕话) and culture

(of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)

ancient language / old expression

language type (in a classification)

polite speech; diplomatic language; rhetoric

western language / Spanish (language)

slang / argot / private language used as secret code

Thai (language)

the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom) / (courteous language) it's my good fortune...

to write characters in simplified form / the simplified form of a character / to abbreviate (a word or expression) / to write in simple language

Korean language (esp. in context of South Korea)

profanity / obscene language / speaking rudely

to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom) / (of language) simple and easy to understand

wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance / love affair / romance is in the air / dissipated life

swear words / obscene language / foul language

Tibetan script / Tibetan written language / Tibetan language

phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds) / Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha / (dialect) final particle similar to 了 (esp. in Yunnan)

German (language)

code word; coded language / to communicate in private

Japanese (language)

native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language

(linguistics) language material; language data

Chinese written language / Chinese literature esp. as taught abroad

spoken language / vernacular

single Chinese character / (Tw) word (of a foreign language)

honorific (e.g. in grammar of oriental languages)

"officialese" / bureaucratic language / Mandarin

medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand

Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times)

lit. to move one's hands and feet about (idiom) / fig. to dance about / to express one's feelings in body language / to gesture animatedly / (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs

Tibetan language

French language

Chinese language / Chinese script

(language education) to read swiftly, aiming to get the gist / extensive reading

a full mouth of (sth physical) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc)

language family

jargon / language of the trade

language; use of words; phraseology / articles; essays; writing

German (language)

final sound of a syllable / rhyme (e.g. in European languages)

amiable (manner) / unassuming / written in plain language / easy to take in

thick and heavy in colors / to describe sth in colorful language with attention to detail (idiom)

to weigh up sb's words and observe their facial expression (idiom) / to discern what sb thinks from his body language

sign language

Mongolian (language)

Sanskrit (language)

a full mouth of (sth tangible) / to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises, etc) / (to agree etc) unreservedly

language branch

vulgar language; coarse language

to insult / to direct bad language at sb / to slag off

rhetoric / flowery language

Portuguese (language)

spoken language / sound of speaking

to polish a text / rhetoric / ornate language / to use florid language to conceal errors / to gloss over

Mongolian language

obscene language

reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀｜训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)

Manchurian written language

Burmese (language of Myanmar)

a tune / a melody / accent (distinctive way of pronouncing a language) / tone (manner of expression) / elegance / refinement

rhymed language

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

sign language

(of language or behavior) flippant and insincere

to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language

failure to meet / (humble language) I'm sorry not to have come to meet you personally