Hanja Analyzer
説

説 — seol, se, yeol

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 說.

Korean reading
말씀 설, 달랠 세, 기뻐할 열
Romanization
seol, se, yeol
English
speak
Mandarin
shuō
Japanese on'yomi
セツ, ゼイ, エツ, タツ, セイ
Japanese kun'yomi
と.く
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#326 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Variant forms
說
Radical
言 (149, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+8AAC

Parts that make up 説

  • 言 말씀 언, 심사 화평할 은 혀 위에 표를 더한 모양말하고 적는 일
  • 兌 바꿀/기쁠 태, 날카로울 예 입을 벌려 웃는 사람‘태·탈·열·세’ 계열의 소리

Japanese words with 説

  • 演説えんぜつ speech; address
  • 説明せつめい explanation; exposition; description
  • 小説しょうせつ novel; story; (work of) fiction
  • 解説かいせつ explanation; commentary; exposition
  • 説得せっとく persuasion
  • 伝説でんせつ legend; folklore; tradition
  • 遊説ゆうぜい election tour; election campaign; stumping
  • 力説りきせつ emphasizing (a point, argument, etc.); stressing; insistence
  • 社説しゃせつ editorial; leading article; leader
  • 論説ろんせつ article; discourse; dissertation
  • 小説家しょうせつか novelist; fiction writer
  • 定説ていせつ established theory; accepted opinion; accepted explanation

Other hanja read “설”

Other hanja with radical 言

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences