聲

See also 声

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 殸 + semantic 耳 (“ear”)

Han character

聲 (radical 128 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土水尸十 (GESJ), four-corner 4740₁, composition ⿱殸耳)

1. sound, voice, noise; tone; music

References

• KangXi: page 969, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29166
• Dae Jaweon: page 1420, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2794, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8072

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Cantonese

Hanzi

聲 (simplified 声, Yale seng1, sing1)

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Japanese

Kanji

聲

1. voice

Readings

• On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
• Kun: こえ (koe)

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Korean

Hanja

聲 (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

聲 (simplified 声, pinyin shè (she4), shēng (sheng1), yè (ye4), zhé (zhe2), zhè (zhe4), Wade-Giles she⁴, sheng¹, yeh⁴, che², che⁴)

Compounds

• 聲音
• 音聲
• 大聲

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Vietnamese

Han character

聲 (thanh, thiêng, thinh)