讠
yán zì páng
Two strokes on the left, and words leave the mouth for someone else
The picture Speech popping out of the left side as a single dot and running out along a line. 讠 is speech leaving the mouth for someone else, 忄 is feeling that stays inside the chest.
Where the picture shows up in 讠
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speech unspooling from a mouth
他说中文说得很好。
tā shuō zhōngwén shuō de hěn hǎo
He speaks Chinese really well.
Words unspooling out of a mouth and reaching the listener
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speech bundled into a chunk
这句话我听不懂。
zhè jù huà wǒ tīng bù dǒng
I can't follow this sentence.
The speech that came out packed into one block, set down in front of the listener's ear
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speech held out politely
请帮我一下,好吗?
qǐng bāng wǒ yíxià, hǎo ma
Could you give me a hand?
Words carried forward on both palms and offered to the other person
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speech sent back in return
谢谢你的帮忙。
xièxie nǐ de bāngmáng
Thank you for your help.
As much speech as was received being sent back toward the giver
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flat letters raised into sound
请读一遍这个句子。
qǐng dú yí biàn zhège jùzi
Please read this sentence out once.
Letters lying flat on paper standing up as sound as they pass the mouth
All of it in one picture
讠 is one stream of speech just out of the mouth. Let it unspool and you get speaking; bundle it into a chunk and you get "words". Hold it out on both palms and you get a request; send back as much as you received and you get thanks. Raise the letters lying on paper into sound and you get reading.