HSK 6 · Verbs

赠送 zèngsòng “to give as a present” in Chinese

Traditional 贈送

What 赠送 means

  1. to give as a present
  2. to present
  3. to present as a gift

How to say 赠送

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赠zèng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale送sòng4th tone, falling

赠送 in a sentence

  1. 买两件衣服就赠送一双袜子。

    Mǎi liǎng jiàn yīfu jiù zèngsòng yì shuāng wàzi.

    Buy two pieces of clothing and get a free pair of socks.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 学校赠送给每个毕业生一本纪念册。

    Xuéxiào zèngsòng gěi měi ge bìyèshēng yì běn jìniàncè.

    The school gave every graduate a souvenir album.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 赠送 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 赠 (zèng) with each of its parts in a different colour
赠zèngto give as a present
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part
  • 曾already · céngSound part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 曾 (céng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zèng.

The character 送 (sòng) with each of its parts in a different colour
送sòngto send; to deliver; to transmit
  • 关frontier pass · guān
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

How to write 赠送

赠 16 strokes · 送 9 strokes

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

Words related to 赠送

Words with 送

送sòng · to give as gift

More words: Common Verbs

遭受zāoshòu · to suffer糟蹋zāotà · to waste遭殃zāoyāng · to suffer disaster遭遇zāoyù · to encounter增添zēngtiān · to add扎zhā · to prick占据zhànjù · to occupy展示zhǎnshì · to display

FAQs

赠送 (zèngsòng) means “to give as a present” or “to present”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zèngsòng: zèng with a 4th tone, then sòng with a 4th 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, 赠送 is written 贈送. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zengsong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 赠送 from the suggestions. Typing zengsong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
赠送 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.