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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *说* | 说* | *说
to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine
HSK 1
to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
HSK 1
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  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
HSK 3
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
at least / (to say the) least
HSK 3
can't say for sure / maybe
HSK 4
to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not
HSK 4
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  *吐* | 吐* | *吐
to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)
HSK 5
eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) / aubergine / brinjal / Guinea squash / phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed) / equivalent of "say cheese"
HSK 6
in other words / that is to say
HSK 6
to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides
HSK 6
let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more
HSK 7-9
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
HSK 7-9
to declare one's position / to say where one stands
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
to pray / to say one's prayers / prayer
HSK 7-9
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  *曰* | 曰* | *曰
to speak / to say
HSK 7-9
to say goodbye / to take one's leave
HSK 7-9
words and actions / what one says and what one does
HSK 7-9
to say everything (that is on one's mind)
HSK 7-9
to not say a word (idiom)
HSK 7-9
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  *告* | 告* | *告
(bound form) to say; to tell / to announce; to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit; to sue
HSK 7-9
words / expression / what one says
HSK 7-9
to agree / to go along with / to echo (what sb says)
HSK 7-9
to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning
HSK 7-9
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold
HSK 7-9
needless to say; it goes without saying
HSK 7-9
to not say a word
HSK 7-9
in other words / that is to say / so / thus
HSK 7-9
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
if / if one were to say
HSK 7-9
it is reasonable to say that...
HSK 7-9
to have nothing to say (idiom)
HSK 7-9
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  *言* | 言* | *言
words / speech / to say / to talk
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叮* | 叮* | *叮
to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc) / to say repeatedly / to urge insistently / to ask repeatedly / to stick to a point / (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound
to say sth
to state / to say (the quoted words)
to take medicine orally / oral (contraceptive etc) / to say that one is convinced
Confucius says:
it is said / allegedly / according to reports / or so they say
to want to say sth but then hesitate
abbr. for 上海汽車工業集團|上海汽车工业集团, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
(say) a few words
to speak plainly; to speak one’s mind; to say directly
to say goodbye; to bid farewell / to pay a farewell call
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different
repeatedly (say something)
to say hello to / to send one's regards to
to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to)
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  *谓* | 谓* | *谓
to speak / to say / to name / to designate / meaning / sense
to say a few parting words; to bid goodbye
one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct
to say candidly / to acknowledge frankly
(idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says
to wave the hand (to say goodbye, or in a negative gesture) / crank handle
meaning behind the words / what sb really means to say / one's intentions as revealed in one's words / tone of speech
hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve
to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent
to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear
to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd
to read silently / to mouth (the words of a prayer etc) / to say to oneself / to contemplate inwardly
letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂)
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one
discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech
(idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on
frank and outspoken (idiom) / straight speaking / to say what one thinks
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兕* | 兕* | *兕
animal cited in ancient texts, resembling a buffalo (some say rhinoceros or female rhinoceros)
to say more than is necessary / to give unnecessary details
to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
needless to say / it goes without saying
to say goodbye / leave-taking / farewells
to pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own / to parrot
to say straightforwardly
to say clearly / to argue clearly / to pronounce / pronounced
(idiom) to say not a single word about it
(idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement; just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true
to speak / to say
to shout (i.e. to say in a loud voice) (usually followed by the words shouted) / (old) (of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way
to pray / to say one's prayers
to say straight out / to point out bluntly / to give a straightforward account / to disclose
(idiom) to say one thing and do another
not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say
to say, without careful consideration
to confuse black and white / to say that black is white / fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
to parrot / to repeat uncritically what sb says
one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally
to bow down to everything sb says or does / to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
to say (sth that relates to oneself)
lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); to say what you think / honest and straightforward
to say / to speak / to talk
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
to wave goodbye / (fig.) to say goodbye to / to bid farewell to
to use one's mouth (to say sth)

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