Character Details
| say (to); speak | Ascii: 21548 | w463 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 说 | shuō | shawh | 1 | 讠 (speech) + 兑 (exchange) → speak | 说 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Sometimes the words people speak sound like they were inspired by the devil. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Say/speak. Also, explain or refer to | |||||||||||
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| - What did you say? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 149 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 兑 (exchange) → speak | 讠 (semantic) | 兑 (phonetic) | phonetic from 兑 | ||||||||