HSK 4 · Verbs

放松 fàngsōng “to relax” in Chinese

Traditional 放鬆

What 放松 means

  1. to relax
  2. to slacken
  3. to loosen

How to say 放松

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale放fàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale松sōng1st tone, high and level

放松 in a sentence

  1. 考试结束后，我们可以放松一下了。

    Kǎoshì jiéshù hòu, wǒmen kěyǐ fàngsōng yíxià le.

    After the exam, we can relax a bit.

    Sentence #11837377 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 深呼吸，然后放松。

    Shēnhūxī, ránhòu fàngsōng.

    Take a deep breath and then relax.

    Sentence #798267 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 放松点吧。

    Fàngsōng diǎn ba.

    Just relax.

    Sentence #5102290 from Tatoeba

How 放松 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 放 (fàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
放fàngto put
  • 方square · fāngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàng.

The character 松 (sōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
松sōngpine
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 公fair · gōngSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 公 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with sōng.

How to write 放松

放 8 strokes · 松 8 strokes

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

Words related to 放松

Words with 放

放fàng · put放心fàngxīn · relax放假fàngjià · to have a holiday放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)放弃fàngqì · to renounce放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)播放bōfàng · to broadcast放大fàngdà · to enlarge解放jiěfàng · to liberate

Words with 松

轻松qīngsōng · relaxed

More words: Common Verbs

调查diàochá · investigation掉diào · to fall丢diū · to lose堵车dǔchē · traffic jam发生fāshēng · to happen发展fāzhǎn · development翻译fānyì · to translate放弃fàngqì · to renounce

FAQs

放松 (fàngsōng) means “to relax” or “to slacken”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fàngsōng: fàng with a 4th tone, then sōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 放松 is written 放鬆. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangsong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 放松 from the suggestions. Typing fangsong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
放松 is an HSK 4 word in the 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.