说 — Chinese character
说
shuō
to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
- Pinyin
- shuō
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 讠 兑
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 讠; sound component 兑
- Traditional
- 說 説
Common words with 说
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 说明 (說明) | shuō míng | to explain; to illustrate |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 说话 (說話) | shuō huà | to speak; to say |
| 听说 (聽說) | tīng shuō | to hear (sth said); one hears (that) |
| 说法 (說法) | shuō fǎ | to expound Buddhist teachings |
| 说法 (說法) | shuō fa | way of speaking; wording |
| 传说 (傳說) | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 再说 (再說) | zài shuō | to say again; to put off a discussion until later |
| 据说 (據說) | jù shuō | it is said that; reportedly |
| 说出 (說出) | shuō chū | to speak out; to declare (one's view) |
| 说道 (說道) | shuō dào | to state; to say (the quoted words) |
| 说道 (說道) | shuō dao | to discuss; reason (behind sth) |
English words written with 说
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.