说 說
说說 in English
- to speak / to talk / to say / to explain / to comment / to scold / to tell off / (bound form) theory / doctrine
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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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
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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"下次。"他说道。
"Next time," he said.
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“你说得不对” “那怎么说呢？”
"What you said is wrong." "Then what should I say?"
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“你说得太多了，”他说道。
"You talk too much," he said.
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“坦白说，我有恐高症。”“你是个胆小鬼！”
"To tell you the truth, I am scared of heights." "You are a coward!"
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“相信我。”他说。
"Trust me," he said.
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“这看上去很有意思。”Hiroshi说道。
"This looks pretty interesting," Hiroshi says.