yǒng
sing song or poem
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 永 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 詠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to sing | ||
singing | ||
Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor | ||
aria | ||
to recite |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷraŋ-s | hjwaengH | yǒng | chant (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.4165% of movies
3165th most common character in movies
3469th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A60 |
Shuowen | “詠，歌也。从言，永聲。詠或从口。” |
Sources
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