(zài shuō) - to say again, what's more, besides in Mandarin
zàishuōTraditional: 再說
Translation
to say again, what's more, besides
Word origin
A compound of 再 (zài, 'again') and 说 (shuō, 'to speak'), literally 'speak again', extended to 'what is more, besides'. The simplified 说 derives from 說, a phono-semantic compound of 讠(speech radical) with 兑 (duì) as phonetic.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 再 (zài, 'again') + 说 (shuō, 'to speak'; 讠speech + 兑 duì phonetic)
Stroke order
再
说
Examples
遍。
Please say it again.
，。
Besides, he agreed too.
。
Let's talk about it later.
。
Let us talk about this matter later.
，。
Besides, we are already late.
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