方言

fāng yán

B1 Level 5

方言 (fāng yán) is a Chinese word meaning “topolect”. It sits at TOCFL Level 5 (CEFR B1) on Taiwan's official TBCL vocabulary standard.

Definition

  1. the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
  2. topolect
  3. dialect

Stroke order

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Example

台灣有很多種方言。

Taiwan has many dialects.

Related words at this level

Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).