Kanji1 / 14
説 kanji
opinion, theory, explanation, rumor
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
セツゼイ
Kun readings
とく
Words with 説
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —招待演説者guest speaker
- —十二縁起説Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links
- —説明的科学explanatory science
- —メンデル説Mendelism
- —千年王国説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —至福千年説millenarianism; millennialism; chiliasm
- —自然発生説theory of spontaneous generation
- —中立進化説neutral theory of molecular evolution
- —風説の流布spread of rumours (esp. to influence stock prices); spread of rumors
- —天父受苦説patripassianism (theology)
- —ガイア仮説Gaia hypothesis; Gaia theory; Gaia principle
- —山上の説教Sermon on the Mount
- —貨幣国定説chartalism
- —テレビ演説televised speech; TV address
- —新トマス説neo-Thomism
- —動物園仮説zoo hypothesis (theory on why humanity has had no contact with extraterrestrial life)
- —一人称小説first-person novel; novel written in the first person
- —社会派小説socially aware novel
- —多原発生説polygenesis
- —説明くさいover-explanatory; overly expository; didactic; preachy