Example sentences
nǐ你zài在shuō说shén什me么？
What are you saying?
wǒ我bú不huì会shuō说hàn汉yǔ语。
I can't speak Chinese.
The story behind the character
说
言 (speech) plus 兑, which gives the sound. Xu Shen wrote 说, 释也: "to explain." To speak is to explain.
shuō说
to speak, to say