说话 說話
Measure word
- 句 jù sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse attested in use
Stroke order
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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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不要替我说话。
Don't speak for me.
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不要说话了。
Stop talking.
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人是唯一会说话的动物。
Man is the only animal that can speak.
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他一直都说话算话。
He was always as good as his word.
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他习惯和外国人说话。
He's accustomed to speaking to foreigners.
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他们争吵后，一周都没有再说话。
After they argued, they didn't speak to each other for a week.
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他停止了说话。
He stopped talking.
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他说话了。
He spoke.