shuō
speak
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 兑 represents the sound.
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ot-s | sywejH | shuì | exhort |
*l̥ot | sywet | shuō | speak, explain |
*lot | ywet | yuè | pleased |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 100.0000% of movies
25th most common character in movies
24th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8AAC |
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