(sōng) - loose; relaxed; pine in Mandarin
sōngTraditional: 松
#5361 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
loose; relaxed; pine
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the tree radical 木 gives the meaning (originally the pine tree) and 公 (gōng) carries the sound; the 'loose, relaxed' sense is the simplified merger of 鬆.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 木 (tree radical) + 公 (gōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
松
Examples
。
You need to relax a bit.
裤。
These trousers are too loose.
，。
Relax, do not be nervous.
绳。
This rope is too loose.
绳。
Please loosen the rope.
松 (sōng) means loose or relaxed, and shows up everywhere in 放松 (fàng sōng), to relax.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 松.
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 108.