一家之言

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools	's; him/her/it; this	to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad. (一家之言)		一	家	之	言

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi[t] kˤra tə ŋa[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*qliɡ kraː tjɯ ŋan/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	一	家	之	言
Reading #	1/1	1/1	2/2	3/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī	jiā	zhī	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjit ›	‹ kæ ›	‹ tsyi ›	‹ ngjon ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔi[t]/	/*kˁra/	/*tə/	/*ŋa[n]/
English	one	household	(3p object pronoun; attributive particle)	speak; speech
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

一家之言

statements of a school; (merely) one school of thought
- 序略，以拾遺補蓺，成一家之言，厥協六經異傳，整齊百家雜語。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  序略，以拾遗补蓺，成一家之言，厥协六经异传，整齐百家杂语。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Xù lüè, yǐ shíyí bǔyì, chéng yījiāzhīyán, jué xié liùjīng yìzhuàn, zhěngqí bǎijiā záyǔ. [Pinyin]
  With these brief notes, I hope that I may add to the lost parts of the Canons and Arts, establish another school of scholarship, thereby provide accompaniment to the voluminous commentaries on the Six Classics, and consolidate the diverse teachings by the previous masters.
(often humble) one's own thought, opinion, interpretation, etc. (implying bias, incompleteness, etc.)