Speak in Chinese
to speak · HSK 1
说
他说明天会下雨。 He said it will rain tomorrow.
Other ways to say speak
More words with 说
How do you say speak in Chinese?
Speak in Chinese is 说 (shuō). You can also say 说话 (shuō huà), 讲 (jiǎng), 发言 (fā yán), 讲话 (jiǎng huà).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.