释义
- 1. to speak
- 2. to say
Character focus
笔顺
4 strokes
词语关系
Register variants
1 itemRelated words
2 itemsUsage notes
Common mistakes
Learners often misuse 曰 in place of 说 or 讲; reserve 曰 for historical quotations or stylized language to avoid sounding unnatural.
Formality
曰 is highly literary and archaic; used primarily in classical Chinese texts, proverbs, or elevated formal writing, not in spoken modern Mandarin.
例句
显示 1 条孔子 曰 ：学而时习之，不亦说乎？
Confucius said: Is it not a pleasure to learn and to practice often?
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