What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 方言 mean?

方言 fāngyán

dialect

Its characters

  1. 方 fāng square
  2. 言 yán words

In a sentence

他说的是家乡方言,我听不懂。 He's speaking his hometown dialect, and I can't understand it.

外婆说的又是地地道道的湖南方言,有好几句她没听懂。

From 六十秒 · Sixty Seconds: a Chinese short story

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