說 · shuō
speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
- Mandarin
- shuō
- Cantonese
- syut3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 說 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
セツ ゼイ ネ セイ セ タツ セチ エツ とくKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 설
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 세
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 열
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8AAA
- Radical
- 言 · 149
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 說
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- sywejH · 舒芮 反切 · #2392
- Middle Chinese
- ywet · 弋雪 反切 · #3505
- Middle Chinese
- sywet · 失爇 反切 · #3509
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13772 · sywejH = 蟹合三去祭書 · ywet = 山合三入仙以 · sywet = 山合三入仙書
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- shuō
- kCantonese
- syut3
- kDefinition
- speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 149.7
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+8BF4
- kGradeLevel
- 1
Readings across dictionaries
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- shuō(10245)
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 舒芮 弋雪 失爇
- Kangxi positions
- 1164.080
- Guangyun positions
- 376.25 498.36 499.01
- GSR references
- 0324q
- Cangjie
- YRCRU
- Four-corner
- 0861.6