說道 Simplified: 说道 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. shuōdào ㄕㄨㄛ ㄉㄠˋ to state to say (the quoted words) shuōdao ㄕㄨㄛ ˙ㄉㄠ to discuss reason (behind sth) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT