Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbexplanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend

Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verbto explain; to preach; to advocate · to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with; to urge (someone to do)

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verbsermon; preaching; homily · remonstration; scolding; lecturing

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbpersuasion

Nounpersuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

Noun(printed) instructions; manual; explanatory leaflet (pamphlet, note); description

Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)explanatory; expository; elucidatory

Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi)persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion

I-adjective (keiyoushi)difficult to explain

I-adjective (keiyoushi)preachy; sanctimonious

I-adjective (keiyoushi)over-explanatory; overly expository; didactic; preachy

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbadmonition; warning; advising (against); reproof

Noun, Suru verbtale; narrative

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verblecture; sermon; preaching · scolding; preaching; moralizing; moralising

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbpersuasion

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verblecture on the sutras

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbinstructions; explanation

Noun, Suru verbconfuting; arguing down

Noun, Suru verbexplaining an idea; exposition; explanation

Nounexplanatory note; explanatory text; explanation; caption

Nounpreacher

Nounsutra-based ballads accompanied by the samisen

Nouncollection of stories (esp. myths, legends, etc.)

Nouninformation session; briefing; explanatory meeting

Nounpreacher

Nounbriefer; elucidator; exponent; expositor; explainer

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Intransitive verbto begin to speak; to begin to explain

Godan verb with 'bu' ending, Intransitive verbto mention; to refer to; to touch upon

Nounpreaching burglar; burglar who preaches at the victim about the methods of preventing similar crimes

Nountub-thumping preacher; preacher (priest) who is good at delivering a sermon; pulpiteer

Nounlegendary literature; narrative literature

Nounaccountability; being held accountable

Godan verb with 'su' endingto explain; to show; to demonstrate

Noun(written) explanation; explanatory label (e.g. in a museum); information sign (e.g. at a tourist spot); instructions (e.g. for a product)

NounShuowen Jiezi (first comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters; 121 CE)

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto confute; to argue down; to persuade; to convince; to prevail on

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto explain; to make clear; to elucidate; to illustrate

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto explain carefully or by making distinctions

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto persuade

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Intransitive verbto begin an explanation (argument, story, etc.)

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto persuade

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Ichidan verbto put forward a theory

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ku' endingto explain adequately; to be accountable

Noun, Suru verbexplanation; exposition

Nounexplanatory science

Ichidan verbto explain

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto explain; to reason

Nounexplanatory adequacy