说一是一，说二是二

说一是一，说二是二 in English

shuō yī shì yī shuō èr shì èr: (idiom) What is said will be done exactly as stated, without alteration. It emphasizes that one's word is binding.

Character breakdown

说說 shuì to persuade
一 yī one
是昰 shì to be (followed by substantives only)
二 èr two

Stroke order

Le caractère 说 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 说

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 一 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 一

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 是 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 是

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 二 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 二

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

说

These are the forms of 說, the traditional character: 说 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

一

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
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是

Bronze script 西周中期
Clerical script 東漢
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二

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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