说

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)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

surname Dui

to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp / ☱

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking

to explain / to illustrate / to indicate / to show / to prove / explanation / directions / caption / CL:個|个[ge4]

to make a long story short (idiom)

though / although

hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it

gossip; hearsay; rumor

harmful teachings / evil doctrine

novel

non-fiction

single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution)

let's talk about the unpleasant things first; let's be frank

to speak on sb's behalf; to intercede for sb / to lobby illegally

to state; to assert

Darwinism

that goes without saying

lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"

let's talk about the unpleasant things first / let's be frank

to speak for sb / to intercede for sb / to lobby illegally

to state / to assert

scattered essays / various opinions / different manners of speaking