汉语

Hàn yǔ · HSK 1

Chinese language

🇨🇳 汉语 = Han (people) + language

汉 refers to the Han ethnic majority and the Han dynasty; 语 means language or speech. Together: the language of the Han people, i.e. Chinese. 语 contains 言 (speech) as its radical, marking it as speech-related.

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