說

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See also: 説 and 说
說 U+8AAA, 說
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AAA
← 誩
[U+8AA9]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 誫 →
[U+8AAB]
說 U+F96F, 說
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F96F
← 葉
[U+F96E]		 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 殺 →
[U+F970]
說 U+F9A1, 說
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A1
← 裂
[U+F9A0]		 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 廉 →
[U+F9A2]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 說
Shinjitai 説
Simplified 说

Han character[edit]

說 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口金口山 (YRCRU), four-corner 08616, composition ⿰言兌)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1164, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35556
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1629, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 6, page 3979, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8AAA

Chinese[edit]

trad. 說/説
simp. 说

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 說
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script
說-silk.svg 說-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (兌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
毤 *l̥ʰoːds
蛻 *l'oːds, *l̥ʰoːds, *hljods, *lod, *lod
娧 *l̥ʰoːds, *lod
駾 *l̥ʰoːds
裞 *l̥ʰoːds, *hljods
兌 *l'oːds
綐 *l'oːds
銳 *l'oːds, *lods
帨 *stʰods, *hljods
稅 *hljods
說 *hljods, *hljod, *lod
涚 *hljods
䫄 *rtʰoːd
脫 *l̥ʰoːd, *l'oːd
侻 *l̥ʰoːd
挩 *l̥ʰoːd, *l'oːd
莌 *l̥ʰoːd, *l'oːd
梲 *l̥ʰoːd, *ʔljod, *l̥ʰuːd
鮵 *l'oːd
敓 *l'oːd
痥 *l'oːd
悅 *lod, *lod
閱 *lod

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljods, *hljod, *lod): semantic 言 + phonetic 兌 (OC *l'oːds).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Note:
  • seh/serh/soeh - vernacular;
  • soat - literary.
Rime
Character 說
Reading # 3/3
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 薛 (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 失爇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕwiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiuɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 說
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shuō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sywet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ot/
English speak, explain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 說
Reading # 2/3
No. 2571
Phonetic
component		 兑
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 說
Old
Chinese		 /*hljod/

Definitions[edit]

說

  1. to say; to speak
    說漢語 / 说汉语  ―  shuō Hànyǔ  ―  speak Chinese
    說話 / 说话  ―  shuōhuà  ―  to speak
  2. to explain
    把話說清楚 / 把话说清楚  ―  bǎ huà shuō qīngchǔ  ―  to make it clear
  3. to refer to
  4. to discuss
  5. to introduce; to bring parties together
    說媒 / 说媒  ―  shuōméi  ―  to act as a matchmaker
  6. to criticize; to scold; to upbraid
    你怎麼天天都說我？ [MSC, trad.]
    你怎么天天都说我？ [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ zěnme tiāntiān dōu shuō wǒ? [Pinyin]
    Why do you constantly criticize me?
  7. theory; explanation
    學說 / 学说  ―  xuéshuō  ―  theory
Synonyms[edit]
Dialectal synonyms of 說 (“to say, to speak”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 言、云、曰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 說
Mandarin Beijing 說
Taiwan 說
Tianjin 說
Jinan 說
Xi'an 說
Wuhan 說
Chengdu 說
Hefei 講
Cantonese Guangzhou 講、話
Hong Kong 講、話
Yangjiang 講、話
Gan Nanchang 話
Hakka Meixian 講、話
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 講
Liudui (S. Sixian) 講
Hsinchu (Hailu) 講
Dongshi (Dabu) 講
Zhuolan (Raoping) 講
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 講
Jin Taiyuan 說
Min Bei Jian'ou 話
Min Dong Fuzhou 講
Min Nan Xiamen 講
Quanzhou 說
Zhangzhou 講
Taipei 講
Chaozhou 呾
Wu Shanghai 講
Suzhou 講、說
Wenzhou 講
Xiang Changsha 講
Shuangfeng 曰、講

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 說

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Rime
Character 說
Reading # 1/3
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 祭 (36)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舒芮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiuᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕʷiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕwiajH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiuɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭwɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯wɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuì
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 說
Reading # 1/3
No. 2552
Phonetic
component		 兑
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 稅
Old
Chinese		 /*hljods/

Definitions[edit]

說

  1. to persuade; to canvass; to lobby

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 說

Pronunciation 3[edit]

Rime
Character 說
Reading # 2/3
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 薛 (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 弋雪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /juæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /iuɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuè
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 說
Reading # 3/3
No. 2577
Phonetic
component		 兑
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 悅
Old
Chinese		 /*lod/

Definitions[edit]

說

  1. † Alternative form of 悅／悦 (yuè, “happy; delighted”).

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 說

Pronunciation 4[edit]

Definitions[edit]

說

  1. † Alternative form of 脫／脱 (tuō, “to free; to relieve”).

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 說

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

說

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. opinion
  2. theory
  3. explanation
  4. rumor

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

This character lacks essential JIS support and is not used in Japanese. The character 説 (U+8AAC) is used instead.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

說 • (seol, se, yeol) (hangeul 설, 세, 열)

  1. explain
  2. speak
  3. talk

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

說 (thuyết)

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