述 (shù) — to relate, narrate, state

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字

述 character · TOCFL B2 (est.)

述＝辵＋朮

ㄕㄨˋ · shù

verb — to relate, narrate, state

字源 FORM — what the parts do

辵義to walk, go along a road (辶)

朮聲zhú — the phonetic, shifted to shù

ITzhú → shù — the reading slides from zhú

Walking (辵, 辶) with 朮 zhú for the sound: to follow a road — and from following a path, following a thread of events in words, 敘述、陳述. 朮 reads zhú; here it slid to shù. Hold it against 術: 述 follows (辶), 術 is the craft inside a crossroads (行).

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

沿著路（辶）一步步走——把事情也一條條順著講下去。

Following the road (辶) step by step — and so the account is told, point following point.

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意 · Meanings

(本義)述說、敘述— to relate, narrate常用

→陳述、論述— to state, set forth (an argument)常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension