说话算数

to keep one's promise / to mean what one says

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

to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories / talk / word

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

old variant of 話|话[hua4]

to regard as / to figure / to calculate / to compute

to count numbers / to keep to one's word / to hold (i.e. to remain valid) / to count (i.e. to be important)

to count / to count as / to regard as / to enumerate (sb's shortcomings)

number / figure / several / CL:個|个[ge4]

frequently / repeatedly