说 shuō
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 兑 to exchange
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
说不定
shuōbudìng
maybe
Characters in this word
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
定 dìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 疋 roll, bolt of cloth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 说不定会下雨。 Shuō bu dìng huì xià yǔ. It might rain.
- 说不定他来。 Shuō bu dìng tā lái. Maybe he will come.
- 说不定很好吃。 Shuō bu dìng hěn hǎo chī. Maybe it tastes very good.
Related words
- 说 shuō to say, to speak
- 说话 shuōhuà to talk, to speak
- 比如说 bǐrúshuō for example
- 说明 shuōmíng to explain; to show
- 听说 tīngshuō to hear that
- 小说 xiǎoshuō novel
- 传说 chuánshuō legend
- 据说 jùshuō it is said that
- 说服 shuōfú to persuade
- 一般来说 yìbānláishuō generally speaking
- 说法 shuōfǎ way of saying something
- 不大 búdà not very, not much