Kilo Lingo

(chàng) - sing in Mandarin

chàng

Traditional: 唱

Line drawing of 唱
Coloured illustration of 唱
HSK 2
#777 of 5,000 Core 1000

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

Stroke order for 唱

Examples

She loves to sing.

Let us sing this song together.

He sings very beautifully.

She is singing in the bathroom.

tái

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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This word is part of lesson 16.