言う
いう · iu · JLPT N5 · verb-godan
to say
💬 iu sounds like the letters E-U: spell out E, U aloud and you say something
The kanji 言 is the speech radical, found in 話 (talk), 語 (language) and 読 (read). Written いう but usually pronounced closer to yuu, so the word is little more than a breath of sound leaving the mouth: to say.