唱
HSK 1freq #813
Meanings
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- 1.to sing
- 2.to call loudly
- 3.to chant
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Wiktionary
- 1.to lead in singing
- 2.to sing
- 3.to call; to cry out; to chant
- 4.song
- 5.to spread (usually negative) information or rumours
- 6.to advocate; to initiate
- 7.a surname, Chang
- 8.to exchange (currency, money, cash, etc.)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tʰjaŋs): semantic 口 + phonetic 昌 (OC *tʰjaŋ). Same word as 倡 (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to lead; to advocate”). Schuessler (2007), reconstructing the Old Chinese minimally as *k-hlaŋh, considers it to be a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Burmese အချင်း (a.hkyang:, “song, poem”) and perhaps also Proto-Bodo-Garo *lʔəŋ (“to sing”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我沒唱。
I didn't sing.
請唱一首歌。
Please sing a song.
我想唱個歌。
I want to sing a song.
他唱了一首歌。
He sang a song.
我真的不会唱。
I really don't sing.
他唱了些老歌。
He sang some old songs.
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