(chàng) - sing in Mandarin
chàngTraditional: 唱
Translation
sing
Word origin
唱 is a phono-semantic compound: the mouth radical 口 marks it as something done with the voice, while 昌 (chāng) supplies the sound. It means to sing.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 昌 (chāng, phonetic)
Stroke order
唱
Examples
。
She loves to sing.
。
Let us sing this song together.
。
He sings very beautifully.
浴。
She is singing in the bathroom.
台。
She sang a song on stage.
唱 (chàng) means sing. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 唱.
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