to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

variant of 說｜说

to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word

to explain / to illustrate / to indicate / to show / to prove / explanation / directions / caption / CL: 個｜个

can't say for sure / maybe

to persuade

to speak out / to declare (one's view)

to expound Buddhist teachings

way of speaking / wording / formulation / one's version (of events) / statement / theory / hypothesis / interpretation

to say sth

to state / to say (the quoted words)

to discuss / reason (behind sth)

to mention / to bring up (a subject) / with regard to / as for

to come to an agreement / to complete negotiations

to be unmentionable / be unspeakable / must / cannot but

to persuade / to convince / to talk sb over / Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2]

acceptable / passable / justifiable / (of a course of action) to make sense

in the final analysis / in the end

to lie / to tell an untruth

see 說文解字｜说文解字

speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞｜弹词 and 相聲｜相声 / (music) rapping

Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎｜许慎 in 2nd century

folk art consisting of storytelling to music

to reason / to argue logically

to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter

cannot be justified / inexcusable

excuse / pretext / entreaties / arguments

to preach

to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning

to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc) / to reveal

to make thoughtless remarks (idiom) / to criticize / gossip

to persuade

to intercede / to plead for sb else

(old) itinerant political adviser / (fig.) lobbyist / go-between / mouthpiece / also pr. [shuo1 ke4]

start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly

to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word

to talk about / to mention / (preposition) as for

to act as a matchmaker

to act as a matchmaker

to bring together / to mediate / to arrange a deal

lit. to discuss sb's merits and demerits (idiom); to gossip

to boast

to chat about this and that / to talk about anything and everything

to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)

to say / to speak / to talk

to get sb to understand / to persuade

to hit the nail on the head / to predict correctly

to make (sb) cry (with one's harsh words)

(old) works of literature, including novels, plays etc

memorandum / note (i.e. written statement)

to agree on / to settle on

to be as good as one's word (idiom) / to keep one's promise

to have the final say / to be the one in charge

when all is said and done / at the end of the day

after all

unable to say

speechless

unable to say / can't say precisely

it does not make sense

strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say

lit. when someone tells you you're fat, you pant (as if you were actually fat) (idiom) / fig. Hey! I pay you a compliment, and you start bragging! (typically jocular and teasing) / flattery, like perfume, should be smelled, not swallowed

to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly

"The Story of Yue Fei", biography of Song dynasty patriot and general Yue Fei 岳飛｜岳飞

to do what needs to be done, without delay

to talk nonsense / to bullshit

can be counted or regarded as / to be able to tell or answer / to deserve mention

Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) by Duan Yucai 段玉裁

(technical) manual / (book of) directions / synopsis (of a play or film) / specification (patent) / CL: 本

information meeting

Saying is one thing, doing quite another (idiom)

see 說是一回事，做又是另外一回事｜说是一回事，做又是另外一回事

(idiom) no sooner said than done / before you know it

lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear

see 說曹操曹操就到｜说曹操曹操就到

persuasiveness

to make a slip of the tongue

to blurt out / to let slip

to speak frankly

to tell the truth / honestly / in fact

to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank

to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around

erhua variant of 說著玩｜说着玩

sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them

to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise

to keep one's promise / to mean what one says

to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says

promises must be kept

nothing serious / just hot air

liar

to chat / to gossip

to sneer / to make cynical remarks / sarcastic talk