Chinese Character Wiki

颂

sòng

laud

Phonosemantic compound. 页 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound. Simplified form of 頌.

Components
页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

公 sound component

公  Sound component

gōng

  

public

Evolution

颂 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
颂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
颂 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
颂 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

颂 (頌) 

sòng

laud, acclaim; hymn; ode; eulogy; to praise in writing; to wish (in letters)

Most common words with 颂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颂

ode

歌颂

to extol

颂歌

carol

赞颂

to bless

颂扬

to eulogize

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0915% of movies

2752nd most common character in movies

2414th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

頌

Unicode

U+9882


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