Chinese Character 说 Meanings and components.

Form

说

Meaning

说 meaning[3] in English

To Persuade.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 说 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'speech' or 'words' … (讠) , and surname Dui (兌)

Its radical[1] is: 言 (yan2) which means: Words, Speech, To Say, To Talk, .言yan2words

In cangjie it is written with IVCRU

How to write 说

To write说shuo1to persuade you should write a combination of 讠yan2'speech' or … , 兌dui4surname Dui arranged in a 吅 shape:

讠 + 兌 = 说

说 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 说 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 说, looks as follow:

说
Pinyin:shuo1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Persuade
讠
Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: 'Speech' Or 'Words' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 149) . See Also 言字旁[Yan2 Zi4 Pang2]
兌
Pinyin:dui4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Dui
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8
兄
Pinyin:xiong1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Elder Brother
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
儿
Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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