Radical 149
Radical 149 or radical speech meaning "speech" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 861 characters to be found under this radical.
言 is also the 166th indexing component in the Table of Indexing [Chinese Character Components] predominantly adopted by Simplified [Chinese characters|Simplified Chinese] dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified component form 讠 listed as its associated indexing component.
Variant forms
The first stroke of this radical character is printed differently in different languages, while in writing, the slant dot form is overwhelmingly preferred.| Kangxi Dict. Japanese Korean | Trad. Chinese Simp. Chinese |
| 言 | 言 |
In addition, when used as a left component, this character is simplified as 讠 in Simplified Chinese.