议论
yìlùn · HSK 4
discuss
💬 议 (discuss) + 论 (theory/argument) = debate by trading viewpoints
议 carries the speech radical 讠 plus 义 (righteous), meaning to deliberate. 论 also has 讠 plus 仑 (orderly), meaning to reason. Together: ordered talk about righteous points — debate, discuss.
议 — speech radical 讠 (言) + 义 (yì, righteousness)
议 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The speech radical 讠 (言) signals meaning related to talking, while 义 supplies the sound 'yì'. Together they convey discussing or deliberating—literally 'speech about what is right,' which fits its modern senses of 'discuss' and 'proposal.'