Moto 語: Word; Speech; LanguageKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- ゴ
- Kun'yomi
- かた(る)、かた(らう)
- Level
- JLPT N5Jōyō, grade 2
- Words
- 1,294 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (ゴ)
- 英語えいごEnglish (language)
- 言語げんごlanguage
- 用語ようごterm; terminology
- 国語こくごnational language
- 外国語がいこくごforeign language
- 語学ごがくstudy of foreign languages
- 落語らくごrakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling
- 単語たんごword; vocabulary
- 仏語ふつごFrench (language)
- 落語家らくごかrakugo story teller; comic story teller
- 語気ごきtone; manner of speaking
- 季語きごseasonal word (in haiku)
- 語ごlanguage
- 標語ひょうごmotto; slogan
- 造語ぞうごcoined word; coinage
- 新語しんごnew word; neologism
- 語源ごげんorigin of a word; derivation of a word
- 国語辞典こくごじてんJapanese-language dictionary
- 私語しごwhispering; whisper
- スペイン語スペインごSpanish (language)
- スワヒリ語スワヒリごSwahili (language); Kiswahili
- ドイツ語ドイツごGerman (language)
- フランス語フランスごFrench (language)
- ラテン語ラテンごLatin (language)
- 一語いちごone word
- 中国語ちゅうごくごChinese (language)
- 主語しゅごsubject
- 俗語ぞくごcolloquialism; colloquial language
- 共通語きょうつうごcommon language; lingua franca
- 原語げんごoriginal word; original language
- 口語こうごspoken language; colloquial speech
- 古語こごobsolete word; old proverb
- 合成語ごうせいごcompound word
- 同義語どうぎごsynonym
- 和製英語わせいえいごJapanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan
- 和語わごJapanese language
- 国語学こくごがくJapanese philology; Japanese linguistics
- 外来語がいらいごloanword; foreign-origin word
- 失語症しつごしょうaphasia (loss of speech)
- 敬語けいごhonorific; term of respect
- 文語ぶんごwritten language; literary language
- 標準語ひょうじゅんごstandard language (used in government, education, etc.)
- 死語しごdead language; extinct language
- 母国語ぼこくごlanguage of one's country; mother tongue
- 漢語かんごJapanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word
- 熟語じゅくごkanji compound
- 独語どくごmonologue; soliloquy
- 略語りゃくごabbreviation; acronym
- 英単語えいたんごEnglish word
- 術語じゅつごtechnical term; terminology
Words that use a kun'yomi
- 語らうかたらうto talk; to tell
- 語るかたるto talk about; to speak of
- 物語るものがたるto tell; to indicate
- 語りかたりtalk; recital
- 語り口かたりくちway of reciting; way of telling a story
- 弾き語りひきがたりsinging to one's own accompaniment; reciting while playing the shamisen, biwa, etc.
Other readings
- 日本語にほんごJapanese (language)
- 物語ものがたりtale; story
- 夢物語ゆめものがたりaccount of a dream
- 平家物語へいけものがたりThe Tale of the Heike; Heike Monogatari
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