说

說
shuì
#24 most
frequent character
to persuade

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

说 has 讠 speech as the meaning part and 兑 duì as the sound part; it first meant 'to explain'. It grew to 'theory', then 'to speak'. Read shuì, it means to persuade.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

说shuō
speak
说shuō
speak

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