one of the 214 radicals in the traditional character classification system
    
譫譫RS 谵谵 | 噡 | talkative, incoherent talk |  |  | 
討討RS 讨讨 |  | quell, suppress, demand, research  | - done by speaking 言 and by hand 寸
 
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計計RS 计计 |  | plan, plot, strategem, scheme, measure  | - something containing many many 十 words 言; measuring is of the utmost importance in planning
  - ⓢ calculate ten 十 times the imaginary unit 讠 (i in mathematics)
 
  |  測 衡 量; 工; 図 謀; 総 延; 調
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誰誰RS 谁谁 |  | who? whom? whose? anyone?  | - who's words 言 have we heard, but has fled 隹 so we don't see him anymore?
 
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論論RS 论论 |  | debate, discuss, discourse | - think with people 侖 in words 言
 
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話話RS 话话 |  | speech, talk, language, dialect  | - use your tongue 舌 for speaking 言
 
  |  談 云 語; 筋
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證證RS 证证 | 証 | prove, confirm, verify, proof | - truth of words 言 rises 登 after it has been verified or proven
  - ⓢ correct 正 words 言
 
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讓讓RS 让让 | 譲 | allow, permit, yield, concede, turn over | - words 言 that help 襄/㐮
  - ⓢ words 讠 that help one go up 上: allow or permit
  - ⓢ someone in charge says 讠 something which applies above 上 all else
 
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諺諺RS 谚谚 | 喭𠷗𧧑𧩅 | proverb, maxim |  |  | 
| 信信RS | 㐰 | trust, believe, letter | - words 言/口 a person 亻 can trust or believe
 
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詳詳RS 详详 |  | detailed, complete, thorough | - a farmer speaking 言 about his sheep 羊: he knows all the details thoroughly
 
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| 読読RS |  | read, study, pronounce  | - modf. 讀 → 読: reading out loud words 言 in the marketplace 売 to earn money: selling 売 words 言
 
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| 訳訳RS |  | translate, decode, encode | - translator standing a foot 尺 away from the person talking 言
 
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詣詣RS 诣诣 |  | reach, achievement, accomplishment, call on | - reach a place with the purpose 旨 to speak 言: call on somebody thus achieving
 
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語語RS 语语 |  | language, words, saying, expression  | - that which is transferred by words 言 spoken by the mouth or the hand 吾
 
  |  辞 詞; 告 弁 云 話 啓
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諮諮RS 谘谘 |  | consult, confer, communicate in |  |  | 
諧諧RS 谐谐 |  | harmonize, agree, joke, jest, settle | - speak 言 in order that everyone 皆 agrees: harmonize or joke or settlement
 
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記記RS 记记 |  | record, scribe, keep in mind, remember | - woven 己 words 言 (either into the fabric of scrolls or in the fabric of the mind)
  - remembering is talking 言 to yourself 己
 
  | 書 著 紀 録 誌 | 
讀讀RS 读读 |  | read, study, pronounce  | - selling 賣 words 言: same as 読
  - read and study to sell 卖 words 讠, or simply to show off 卖
 
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誼誼RS 谊谊 |  | friendship, appropriate, suitable | - someone to talk to 言 at the table in the house 宜
 
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