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
- —分子説molecular theory
- —民約説social-contract theory
- —予定説predestination
- —地動説heliocentric theory; Copernican theory; heliocentrism; heliocentricism
- —私小説I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
- —反復説biogenetic law; recapitulation theory (theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny)
- —逆説的paradoxical
- —星雲説the nebular hypothesis
- —演説家speaker; orator
- —説明文explanatory note; explanatory text; explanation; caption
- —説教師preacher
- —説経節sutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen
- —性善説belief that human nature is fundamentally good
- —辻説法street preaching
- —解散説rumor of dissolution (rumour)
- —解説書(instruction) manual; handbook
- —快楽説hedonism
- —隔離説isolation theory
- —社説面editorial page
- —説話集collection of stories (esp. myths, legends, etc.)