(sù) - to tell; to inform; to complain (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
sùTraditional: 诉
#5149 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to tell; to inform; to complain (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the speech radical 讠gives the meaning of telling or complaining, with 斥 (chì) as the phonetic.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 斥 (chì, phonetic)
Stroke order
诉
Examples
。
Please tell me the answer.
。
He told me a secret.
。
I didn't tell anyone.
。
He filed a complaint with the police.
。
Please tell me your thoughts.
诉 (sù) is a bound morpheme meaning to tell or inform, anchored in 告诉 (gào sù) "to tell".
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 诉.
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