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Mythic Mandarin

说起 (shuō qǐ): meaning and stroke order

说起 (shuō qǐ) means to mention, to bring up (a subject), with regard to, as for.

说起

Simplified
说起
Traditional
說起
Pinyin
shuō qǐ

Stroke order of 说起

说

  • shuì to persuade
  • shuō to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment
  • shuō variant of 說|说[shuo1]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 說

Stroke by stroke

起

  • qǐ to rise; to raise
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 说起

  1. shuō qǐ Traditional 說起
    • to mention
    • to bring up (a subject)
    • with regard to
    • as for

Radicals of the characters

说
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 讠 on the left, 兑 on the right
起
Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 10 strokes · built from 走 and 己

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

说起 in our stories

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  • 赵括读得很熟，说起打仗来头头是道，连父亲跟他讨论，有时候也说不过他。

    Zhào Kuò dú de hěn shú shuōqǐ dǎzhàng lái tóutóushìdào lián fùqīn gēn tā tǎolùn yǒushíhou yě shuō bú guò tā

    Zhao Kuo knew them thoroughly and talked about war with great fluency; even his father, discussing it with him, sometimes couldn't out-argue him.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 说起

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).