说 · 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.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8BF4
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 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 说
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 1 matches
对我来说这就不是个问题。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #401383 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #401380 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- shuō
- kCantonese
- syut3
- kDefinition
- speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8AAA U+8AAC
- kTGH
- 2013:1717
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- shuì 1080.010 · shuō 1082.010 · yuè 1428.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- shuì 344.140 · shuō 345.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- shuō(10245)