| 说 | shuì | to canvass; to persuade; see 游说, to canvass and 说客, persuasive speaker |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to say; a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory) |
| 说明 | shuō míng | to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption; CL:个 |
| 就是说 | jiù shì shuō | in other words; that is |
| 小说 | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction; CL:本,部 |
| 说话 | shuō huà | to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word |
| 学说 | xué shuō | theory; doctrine |
| 听说 | tīng shuō | to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking |
| 说道 | shuō dào | to state; to say (the quoted words) |
| 说道 | shuō dao | to discuss; reason (behind sth) |
| 说法 | shuō fa | way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation |
| 说法 | shuō fǎ | to expound Buddhist teachings |
| 再说 | zài shuō | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides |
| 话说 | huà shuō | It is said that... (at the start of a narrative); to discuss; to recount |
| 传说 | chuán shuō | legend; folklore; tradition; it is said; they say that... |
| 据说 | jù shuō | it is said that; reportedly |
| 演说 | yǎn shuō | speech; to deliver a speech |
| 说服 | shuō fú | to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2] |
| 胡说 | hú shuō | to talk nonsense; drivel |
| 换句话说 | huàn jù huà shuō | in other words |
| 虽说 | suī shuō | though; although |
| 说不定 | shuō bu dìng | can't say for sure; maybe |
| 说教 | shuō jiào | to preach |
| 解说 | jiě shuō | to explain; to comment |
| 小说家 | xiǎo shuō jiā | novelist; School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) |
| 短篇小说 | duǎn piān xiǎo shuō | narrative; short story |
| 却说 | què shuō | and the story continues thus: (literary auxiliary particle 发语辞) |
| 长篇小说 | cháng piān xiǎo shuō | long novel |
| 假说 | jiǎ shuō | hypothesis |
| 说笑 | shuō xiào | to chat and laugh; to crack jokes; to banter |
| 说好 | shuō hǎo | to come to an agreement; to complete negotiations |
| 好说 | hǎo shuō | you're too kind (humble); with pleasure! (indicating agreement); easy to handle |
| 劝说 | quàn shuō | persuade; persuasion; advise |
| 诉说 | sù shuō | to tell sb |
| 说不上 | shuō bu shàng | to be unable to say or tell; to not be worth mentioning |
| 说明书 | shuō míng shū | (technical) manual; (book of) directions; synopsis (of a play or film); CL:本 |
| 说书 | shuō shū | folk art consisting of story-telling to music |
| 反过来说 | fǎn guò lái shuō | on the other hand |
| 说唱 | shuō chàng | spoken and sung; hip-hop (music genre) |
| 一般说来 | yī bān shuō lái | generally speaking; in general |
| 瞎说 | xiā shuō | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about |
| 章回小说 | zhāng huí xiǎo shuō | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet |
| 说理 | shuō lǐ | to reason; to argue logically |
| 述说 | shù shuō | to recount; to narrate; to give an account of |
| 说谎 | shuō huǎng | to lie; to tell an untruth |
| 胡说八道 | hú shuō bā dào | to talk rubbish |
| 成说 | chéng shuō | accepted theory or formulation |
| 按说 | àn shuō | in the ordinary course of events; ordinarily; normally |
| 杂说 | zá shuō | scattered essays; various opinions; different manners of speaking |
| 不待说 | bù dài shuō | needless to say; it goes without saying |
