to persuade
to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

= + : In front of the observatory is a big advertising column. On it is a picture of Sheldon Shrimp, who is depicted to be talking about his new cash exchange booth.
variant of 說|说[shuo1]

= + : In front of the observatory is a big advertising column. On it is a picture of Sheldon Shrimp, who is depicted to be talking about his new cash exchange booth.
to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

说 character breakdown

surname Dui
to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp / ☱

= + : Doggy Dog opened a cash exchange booth in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. His first customers are Apollo and a mean crocodile.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 说 as component

说 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 说

to speak the truth / truth to tell / frankly
can't say for sure / maybe
to have the final say / to be the one in charge
start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
to be as good as one's word (idiom) / to keep one's promise
in the final analysis / in the end
see 說文解字|说文解字[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4]
Shuowen Jiezi, the original Han dynasty Chinese character dictionary with 10,516 entries, authored by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[Xu3 Shen4] in 2nd century
Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) by Duan Yucai 段玉裁[Duan4 Yu4 cai2]
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[shuo1 shi4 yi1 hui2 shi4 , zuo4 you4 shi4 ling4 wai4 yi1 hui2 shi4]
(idiom) no sooner said than done / before you know it
"The Story of Yue Fei", biography of Song dynasty patriot and general Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞[Yue4 Fei1]
memorandum / note (i.e. written statement)
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
acceptable / passable / justifiable / (of a course of action) to make sense

Sentences with 说

nán
dào
nǐ
shuo̅
le
bù
suàn
ma