说
shuō
to speak; to say
Type: VerbsHSK 1
Radical 讠 (speech) + 兑 (to exchange, phonetic). To speak is to trade sounds for words.
It's the basic verb for 'to speak' and 'to say'. It marks the language spoken: '说中文' (to speak Chinese). It also appears in 说话 (shuōhuà, to talk).
讠yánspeech
兑duìto exchange
他说中文。
Tā shuō Zhōngwén.
He speaks Chinese.
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