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聲
简 声 · 繁 聲Mandarin · pinyin shēng
Meanings
- sound
- voice
- tone
- noise
- reputation
- classifier for sounds
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1 · sheng1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
seng1 · sing1
Cantonese word readings for 聲. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- sound; noise; voice (Classifier: 把 c)
- (literary) music
- (literary) words; speech
- (literary) to make a sound; to sound
- reputation
- news; messages
- tone
- to declare; to state
- Classifier for sounds.
- (Cantonese) Suffix used to form adjectives with onomatopoeia.
- (Cantonese) Suffix used after large numerals to express the magnitude of a number.
- (Cantonese, chiefly in the negative) to make a sound
- (Cantonese) something that is said (Classifier: 句 c; 粒 c)
- (Chinese phonetics) initial
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