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 / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
to persuade / to convince / to talk sb over / Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2]
to expound Buddhist teachings
way of speaking / wording / formulation / one's version (of events) / statement / theory / hypothesis / interpretation
to chat and laugh / to crack jokes / to banter
to discuss / reason (behind sth)
to state / to say (the quoted words)
excuse / pretext / entreaties / arguments
to get sb to understand / to persuade
(old) works of literature, including novels, plays etc
to sneer / to make cynical remarks / sarcastic talk
erhua variant of 說著玩|说着玩[shuo1 zhe5 wan2]
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
nothing serious / just hot air

Sentences with 说

nán
dào
nǐ
shuo̅
le
bù
suàn
ma