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晋语

晉語
Jìnyǔ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Jin Chinese, the group of dialects spoken in Shanxi and neighbouring areas
  2. 2 Discourses of Jin, the section on the state of Jin in the Guoyu (Discourses of the States)

Examples

HSK 3
山西人说的晋语，外地人不太容易听懂。
Shānxī rén shuō de Jìnyǔ, wàidìrén bú tài róngyi tīngdǒng.
The Jin dialects spoken in Shanxi are not easy for outsiders to understand.
HSK 5
这句话出自《国语·晋语》。
Zhè jù huà chūzì 《 Guóyǔ · Jìnyǔ 》.
This line comes from the 'Discourses of Jin' in the Guoyu.

Tips

history
The 国语 (Discourses of the States) collects speeches of the Zhou period state by state: 周语, 鲁语, 晋语 and so on. The Jin section is the longest, 9 of the 21 chapters. Here 语 means 'discourses', not 'language'.
culture
As a dialect name, 晋 is the short name of Shanxi. Jin keeps the checked tone (入声), a clipped syllable that most Mandarin has lost, which is the main reason many linguists class it apart from Mandarin.

Stroke Order

晋 Jìn
语 yǔ