HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Things

声 shēng “sound” in Chinese

Traditional 聲

What 声 means

  1. sound
  2. voice
  3. (m.w. for sounds, cries)
  4. tone
  5. noise
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • reputation
  • classifier for sounds

How to say 声

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale声shēng1st tone, high and level

声 in a sentence

  1. 他说了声再见就走了。

    Tā shuō le shēng zàijiàn jiù zǒu le.

    He said goodbye and left.

    Sentence #748739 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你说话小点声。

    Nǐ shuōhuà xiǎo diǎn shēng.

    Please speak a little more quietly.

    Sentence #7767745 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 声 can also mean “tone”, as in 四声 (the four tones)

    中文是有四声的语言。

    Zhōngwén shì yǒu sìshēng de yǔyán.

    Chinese is a language with four tones.

    Sentence #3667683 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 声 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 声 (shēng) drawn as one shape
声shēngsound

声 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidSimplified from 聲, which has an ear 耳 at the bottom: a sound, a voice.

How to write 声

声 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 声

Words with 声

声音shēngyīn · sound声调shēngdiào · tone (of a syllable)声明shēngmíng · statement相声xiàngsheng · comic dialogue (crosstalk)声势shēngshì · momentum声誉shēngyù · reputation鸦雀无声yāquèwúshēng · silence reigns

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FAQs

声 (shēng) means “sound” or “voice”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it shēng: shēng 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, 声 is written 聲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type sheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 声 from the suggestions. Typing sheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
声 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 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.