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Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
to relate (a story or information) / to tell or talk about / to recount / narration / telling / narrative / account
HSK 7-9
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  *敘* | 敘* | *敘
abbr. for Syria 敘利亞|叙利亚
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  *敘* | 敘* | *敘
to narrate / to chat
narrative
detailed accounting
Syria
to narrate / narrative
to reminisce / to talk about former times
narrative poem
narrative writing / written narration
Ministry of Civil Service, Taiwan
Xuyong county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
to explain all the details / complete narrative
to chat
to recount what happened prior to events already known
chronological narrative
Syracuse, Sicily / also written 錫拉庫薩|锡拉库萨
Xuyong county in Luzhou 瀘州|泸州, Sichuan
to talk face-to-face
variant of 序文
variant of 序言
to take tea and chat / a small-scale informal gathering with tea and snacks
to speak tentatively
narrative thread; storyline
Israel-Syria
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
Egypt-Syria
reported speech (in grammar)
Syriac language (from c. 2nd century BC) / the Syriac script
to review records and decide on rewards (idiom)
narrative
to summarize / a summary


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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