HSK 6 · Verbs

撒谎 sāhuǎng “to lie” in Chinese

Traditional 撒謊

What 撒谎 means

  1. to lie
  2. to tell lies

How to say 撒谎

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale撒sā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale谎huǎng3rd tone, dipping

撒谎 in a sentence

  1. 我觉得你在撒谎。

    Wǒ juéde nǐ zài sāhuǎng.

    I think you’re lying.

    Sentence #4764630 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他对我们撒谎了。

    Tā duì wǒmen sāhuǎng le.

    He lied to us.

    Sentence #1408098 from Tatoeba

  3. 她试着改正孩子撒谎的习惯。

    Tā shì zhe gǎizhèng háizi sāhuǎng de xíguàn.

    She has tried to correct the child’s habit of telling lies.

    Sentence #9969130 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 撒谎 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 撒 (sā) with each of its parts in a different colour
撒sāto let go
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 散to scatter · sǎn
The character 谎 (huǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
谎huǎnglies
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 荒wasteland · huāngSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 荒 (huāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with huǎng.

How to write 撒谎

撒 15 strokes · 谎 11 strokes

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

Words related to 撒谎

More words: Thinking & Talking

让步ràngbù · to concede饶恕ráoshù · to forgive认定rèndìng · to be convinced认可rènkě · to approve擅长shàncháng · to be good at设想shèxiǎng · to imagine识别shíbié · to identify示意shìyì · to signal

FAQs

撒谎 (sāhuǎng) means “to lie” or “to tell lies”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it sāhuǎng: sā with a 1st tone, then huǎng with a 3rd 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, 撒谎 is written 撒謊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type sahuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 撒谎 from the suggestions. Typing sahuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
撒谎 is an HSK 6 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.