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
说服
shuōfú
to persuade
Characters in this word
服 fú
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我说服了他。 Wǒ shuō fú le tā. I persuaded him.
- 她想说服我。 Tā xiǎng shuō fú wǒ. She wants to persuade me.
- 老师说服他。 Lǎo shī shuō fú tā. The teacher persuades him.
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
- 说不定 shuōbudìng maybe
- 一般来说 yìbānláishuō generally speaking
- 说法 shuōfǎ way of saying something
- 衣服 yīfu clothes