说辞

说辞	shuō cí	excuse / pretext / entreaties / arguments
说	shuì	to persuade
说	shuō	to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine
说	shuō	variant of 说
辞	cí	old variant of 辞
辞	cí	to resign / to dismiss / to decline / (literary) to take leave / (archaic poetic genre) ballad / variant of 词