说

to say, speak

No. 39 most used · 0.54% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 184.

How it's built

• 讠speech
• 兑exchange

A way to remember it

Words (讠) going back and forth (兑): speaking.

Words

• 说话

  shuō huà

  to speak; to say; to talk
• 听说

  tīng shuō

  to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay
• 再说

  zài shuō

  to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover
• 别说

  bié shuō

  to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone
• 要说

  yào shuō

  as for; when it comes to
• 说谎

  shuō huǎng

  to lie; to tell an untruth

Sentences

• 不知作者在说什么。

  bù zhī zuò zhě zài shuō shén me

  It is not clear what the writer is trying to say.
• 不要相信他说的话。

  bú yào xiāng xìn tā shuō de huà

  Don't believe what he says.
• 不要说话，好不好？

  bú yào shuō huà hǎo bu hǎo

  Quit talking, will you?
• 他不知道说什么好。

  tā bù zhī dào shuō shén me hǎo

  He did not know what to say.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.