游说
yóu​shuōyóu​shuì

to persuade

  • created sense approved 游说/遊說 · yóu​shuì · to lobby — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    游说 / 遊說

    yóu​shuì

    to lobby

    To persuade someone to accept a particular idea or opinion; to campaign for a policy or product. This originally referred to wandering political strategists during the Warring States period who traveled between kingdoms to advise rulers.

    游說

    游 (literal) → 游/遊 · yóu · to lobby 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuì · to persuade

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 游说/游說 · yóu​shuō · to persuade — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    游说 / 游說

    yóu​shuō

    to persuade

    to go about talking to people in order to convince or persuade them

    游 (literal) → 游/遊 · yóu · to travel 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuì · to persuade

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense