是说是說 in English
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
是
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 20 forms
说
These are the forms of 說, the traditional character: 说 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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不是说笑的。
It is no joke.
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他绝不是说人坏话的人。
He is the last person to speak ill of others.
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但是说真的，第21集让我笑得眼泪都要出来了。
Seriously though, episode 21 made me almost cry while laughing.
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我只是说说而已！
I'm just saying!
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我父亲总是说天助自助者。
My father always said that heaven helps those who help themselves.
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我的朋友们总是说我太安静了，而我的家人总是说我太让人烦了。
My friends always say I'm too calm, but my family always says I'm too annoying.