Chinese

Noun

方言

1. dialect; topolect; regional variety (of a language, especially Chinese)

   天津方言  ―  Tiānjīn fāngyán  ―  Tianjin dialect

   廣州方言 / 广州方言  ―  Guǎngzhōu fāngyán  ―  Guangzhou Cantonese

2. non-Standard Mandarin variety of Chinese (such as dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Min Nan, etc.)

   在家說方言，在學校說普通話。 [MSC, trad.]

   在家说方言，在学校说普通话。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zài jiā shuō fāngyán, zài xuéxiào shuō pǔtōnghuà. [Pinyin]

   (He) speaks the local dialect at home and Standard Mandarin at school.

3. (religion) tongues

   方言的恩賜 / 方言的恩赐  ―  fāngyán de ēncì  ―  the gift of tongues

Verb

方言

1. (literary) to open one's mouth to speak

Proper noun

方言

1. Fangyan (the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms, written by Han dynasty scholar Yang Xiong)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dongan: фон-ян ‎(fon-yan)

Japanese

Noun

方言 ‎(hiragana ほうげん, romaji hōgen)

1. a dialect; a provincialism

See also

• Category:Regional Japanese
• -弁 (べん) ‎(ben, “suffix for dialects”)

Korean

Noun

方言 • ‎(bang-eon) (hangeul 방언)

1. Hanja form^? of 방언, “dialect, patois”.