yǒng

sing song or poem

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

永 sound component

  Sound component

yǒng

  

long

Evolution

詠 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
詠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
詠 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
詠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yǒng

sing, hum, chant; to sing

Most common words with 詠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to sing

歌咏

singing

谭咏麟

Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor

咏叹调

aria

吟咏

to recite

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷraŋ-s

hjwaengH

yǒng

chant (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.4165% of movies

3165th most common character in movies

3469th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A60

Shuowen

“詠,歌也。从言,永聲。詠或从口。”


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