(jiǎng) - to speak, to tell, to lecture; to negotiate in Mandarin
jiǎngTraditional: 講
HSK 3
#482 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
to speak, to tell, to lecture; to negotiate
Word origin
讲 (jiǎng, 'to speak, to explain') is a phono-semantic compound: 讠(the speech radical, simplified from 言) marks the meaning of speaking, with the right-hand element as phonetic. The traditional form is 講.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 讠(speech radical) + phonetic component (simplified from 講)
Stroke order
讲
Examples
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The teacher is telling a story.
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What he says is very interesting.
，。
Speak slowly, I am listening.
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Please speak a bit slower.
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She told a story.
讲 (jiǎng) - to speak, to tell, to lecture; to negotiate.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 讲.
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