方言

fāngyán

HSK 6

方言 — fāngyán

1. dialect; topolect; regional variety of a language

   他说的方言我听不懂。 tā shuō de fāngyán wǒ tīngbùdǒng — I cannot understand the dialect he speaks.

2. Fangyan — the earliest Chinese dialect dictionary compiled by Yang Xiong (1st century), containing over 9,000 characters

   《方言》收录了上古各地的常用词汇。 fāngyán shōulù le shànggǔ gèdì de chángyòng cíhuì — The Fangyan records commonly used words from various regions of antiquity.