叙述
xùshù · HSK 7
narrate
🗣️ 叙 (tell in order) + 述 (state) = narrate, recount step by step
Both characters mean to relate or set out in words; doubled up they stress orderly telling. 叙 carries a sense of sequence (same root as 顺序 order), so 叙述 is recounting events in order rather than blurting them out.