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  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
at least / (to say the) least
HSK 3
to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word
HSK 1
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not
HSK 4
to leave; to part from / to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
HSK 3
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  *说* | 说* | *说
to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine
HSK 1
say no more / don't bring it up / drop the subject
HSK 7-9
as the proverb says / as they say...
HSK 7-9
needless to say; it goes without saying
HSK 7-9
to say again / to put off a discussion until later / moreover / what's more / besides
HSK 6
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  *吐* | 吐* | *吐
to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)
HSK 5
to not say a word
HSK 7-9
can't say for sure / maybe
HSK 4
in other words / that is to say / so / thus
HSK 7-9
it is reasonable to say that...
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to hit the mark with a comment; to say sth spot on
if / if one were to say
HSK 7-9
peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016)
abbr. for 上海汽車工業集團|上海汽车工业集团, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
to say everything (that is on one's mind)
HSK 7-9
in other words / that is to say
HSK 6
to say nothing of; not to mention; let alone
HSK 7-9
lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); to change sth that is already settled upon / indecisive / to blow hot and cold
HSK 7-9
eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) / aubergine / brinjal / Guinea squash / phonetic "cheese" (when being photographed) / equivalent of "say cheese"
HSK 6
to remain silent / to have nothing to say / (coll.) speechless / dumbfounded
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  *告* | 告* | *告
(bound form) to say; to tell / to announce; to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit; to sue
HSK 7-9
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short / in a nutshell
to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd
nonsense; rubbish; superfluous words / You don't say!; No kidding! (gently sarcastic)
HSK 7-9
to agree / to go along with / to echo (what sb says)
HSK 7-9
discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech
words and actions / what one says and what one does
HSK 7-9
one's own mouth / fig. in one's own words / to say sth personally
to not say a word (idiom) / to keep silent
let alone / to say nothing of / besides / what's more
HSK 7-9
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC)
one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct
lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); to say what you think / honest and straightforward
to be unable to say or tell / to not be worth mentioning
HSK 7-9
to hit the target with a single shot / to say something spot on (idiom)
hard to say; can't be sure / difficult to speak about; unpleasant to say
(say) a few words
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  *言* | 言* | *言
words / speech / to say / to talk
(idiom) needless to say / it goes without saying
to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear
to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says)
not to worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say
Confucius says:
to pray; to say a prayer
HSK 7-9
keep silent / not say a word
to declare one's position / to say where one stands
HSK 7-9
to keep one's promise; to mean what one says
to refuse to say anything about (idiom) / to remain tight-lipped / to avoid mentioning
to not say a word (idiom)
HSK 7-9
needless to say / it goes without saying
words / expression / what one says
HSK 7-9
hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it
HSK 7-9
as they say, ... / as the saying goes, ...
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
to state / to say (the quoted words)
(after a pronoun or name) what (you, they etc) say is true
to have nothing to say (idiom)
HSK 7-9
sth pertinent to say
to say goodbye / to take one's leave
HSK 7-9
it is said / allegedly / according to reports / or so they say
to speak / to say
ability to have one's say and be listened to; influence; clout
to say sth
to not say a word (idiom)
needless to say; it goes without saying
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  *叮* | 叮* | *叮
to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc) / to say repeatedly / to urge insistently / to ask repeatedly / to stick to a point / (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound
lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
frank and outspoken / straight speaking / to say what one thinks
frank and outspoken (idiom) / straight speaking / to say what one thinks
external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); to say what one means / to think and act as one
to decide; to have the final say
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
(coll.) unable to control one's tongue / prone to say sth nasty
to wave goodbye / (fig.) to say goodbye to / to bid farewell to
I have much more to say than can be written in this letter (conventional letter ending) (idiom)
strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say
where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing?
(idiom) one's actions are in keeping with what one says
as the saying goes; as they say...
to say goodbye / leave-taking / farewells
lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.) / to sing from the same hymn sheet
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
letting everyone have their say / taking people's views into account / free expression of different views / (contrasted with 一言堂)
to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different
(idiom) to say not a single word about it
to parrot / to repeat uncritically what sb says
to bid farewell (to); to say goodbye (to)
your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-character version of 口嫌體正直|口嫌体正直)
meaning behind the words / what sb really means to say / one's intentions as revealed in one's words / tone of speech

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