HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Everyday Verbs

唱 chàng “to sing” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 唱 means

  1. to sing
  2. to call loudly
  3. to chant

How to say 唱

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale唱chàng4th tone, falling

唱 in a sentence

  1. 他唱了一首歌。

    Tā chàng le yì shǒu gē.

    He sang a song.

    Sentence #427999 from Tatoeba

  2. 她唱得比他好。

    Tā chàng de bǐ tā hǎo.

    She sings better than he does.

    Sentence #813508 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你能给我们唱首歌吗？

    Nǐ néng gěi wǒmen chàng shǒu gē ma?

    Can you sing us a song?

    Sentence #13943583 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 唱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 唱 (chàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
唱chàngto sing
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 昌sunlight · chāngSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 昌 (chāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with chàng.

How to write 唱

唱 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

唱 (chàng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 唱 (chàng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 唱

Words with 唱

唱歌chànggē · to sing

More words: Everyday Verbs

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FAQs

唱 (chàng) means “to sing” or “to call loudly”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it chàng: chàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 唱 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 唱 from the suggestions. Typing chang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
唱 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.