方言

fāngyán
  1. topolect
  2. dialect

CEDICT

Homographs

方言 Fāngyán the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 扬雄 Yáng Xióng in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters

Entry Composition

1 方 fāng
  1. square
  2. power or involution (math.)
  3. upright
  4. honest
  5. fair and square
  6. direction
  7. side
  8. party (to a contract, dispute etc)
  9. place
  10. method
  11. prescription (medicine)
  12. just when
  13. only or just
  14. classifier for square things
  15. abbr. for square or cubic meter
2 言 yán
  1. words
  2. speech
  3. to say
  4. to talk