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说

說traditional

HSK 1#19 by frequencyradical 讠

shuō["v","g"]

to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine

shuì

to persuade

Examples

说!

Speak!

说呀!

Speak!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.