Chinese Character Wiki
聲

shēng

sound

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 殸 represents the sound.

Components
耳 meaning component

耳  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

殸 sound component

殸  Sound component

qìng

  

stone chimes

Evolution

聲 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
聲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聲 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
聲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

声 (聲) 

shēng

sound, voice, noise; tone; music; sound; voice; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds

Most common words with 聲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

声

sound

声音

voice

声明

to state

大声

loud voice

声称

to claim

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l̥]eŋ

syeng

shēng

sound (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 81.0187% of movies

382nd most common character in movies

195th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

声

Unicode

U+8072

Shuowen

“聲，音也。从耳，殸聲。殸，籀文磬。”


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