Kilo Lingo

说

shuō

Traditional: 說

HSK 1
#137 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to say, to speak, to tell

Stroke order

Stroke order for 说

说

Examples

？

What did you say?

。

He said he is very busy.

慢màn慢màn。

Please speak slowly.

。

He does not want to speak.

。

What you say makes sense.

說 (shuō) means to say, to speak, to tell. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

告诉

to tell, to inform

明白

to understand, clear, obvious

听到

to hear, to catch (a sound)

问

to ask, to inquire

知道

to know (a fact)

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 说.

说话shuō huàto speak, to talk, to chat来说lái shuōspeaking of, in terms of, for (plus perspective)听说tīng shuōto hear that, I heard that再说zài shuōto say again, what's more, besides别说bié shuōdo not say; let alone

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This word is part of lesson 3.