in English

shēng noun, measure word HSK 3
sound / voice / tone / noise / reputation / classifier for sounds

Stroke order

Le caractère 声 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 声 Show the animation
Le caractère 聲 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 聲, the traditional character: 声 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • Ken大声呼救。

    Ken cried for help.

  • 不要发出声音。

    Don't make a noise.

  • 丑闻让他付出了失去声誉的代价。

    That scandal cost him his reputation.

  • 中文是有四声的语言。

    Chinese is a language that has four tones.

  • 他伸长了脖子,希望能听到他们低声说的话。

    He craned his neck a bit in hopes of hearing what they were whispering.

  • 他伸长了脖子,希望能听到她们低声说的话。

    He craned his neck a bit in hopes of hearing what they were whispering.

  • 他名声很好。

    He has a good reputation.

  • 他的声音很悦耳。

    He has a pleasant voice.

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