聲

聲 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土水尸十 (GESJ), four-corner 4740₁, composition ⿱殸耳)

• 𡄔, 𫓠 (𨧅)

• 声 (Japanese shinjitai and Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 969, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29166
• Dae Jaweon: page 1420, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2794, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8072

Historical forms of the character 聲
Shang	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰjeŋ) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 耳 (“ear”).

聲

1. sound; noise; voice (Classifier: 把 c)

   我聽到尖叫聲。／我听到尖叫声。  ―  Wǒ tīng dào jiānjiào shēng.  ―  I heard someone scream.

   鈴聲將我喚醒。／铃声将我唤醒。  ―  Língshēng jiāng wǒ huànxǐng.  ―  I was roused by the sound of a bell.

   我聽列車聲逐漸遠去。 [MSC, trad.]
   我听列车声逐渐远去。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ tīng lièchē shēng zhújiàn yuǎn qù. [Pinyin]

   I heard the sound of the train dying away.

   槍炮聲使群眾驚慌失措。 [MSC, trad.]
   枪炮声使群众惊慌失措。 [MSC, simp.]

   Qiāngpào shēng shǐ qúnzhòng jīnghuāngshīcuò. [Pinyin]

   The crowd panicked at the sound of the guns.

   電話冇聲／电话冇声 [Cantonese]  ―  din⁶ waa⁶ mou⁵ seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  no sound on the phone

   • 我聞其聲、不見其身。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     我闻其声、不见其身。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wǒ wén qí shēng, bù jiàn qí shēn. [Pinyin]

     I heard his voice, but did not see his person.

2. reputation

   聲望／声望  ―  shēngwàng  ―  popularity

   名聲／名声  ―  míngshēng  ―  reputation

   聲譽／声誉  ―  shēngyù  ―  reputation

3. news; messages
4. tone

   四聲／四声  ―  sìshēng  ―  the four tones of Classical and Modern Chinese

5. ^† to declare; to state

   聲明／声明  ―  shēngmíng  ―  declaration, statement

   聲稱／声称  ―  shēngchēng  ―  to claim, to declare

   聲討／声讨  ―  shēngtǎo  ―  to denounce

6. Classifier for sounds.

   一聲槍響／一声枪响  ―  yī shēng qiāngxiǎng  ―  the sound of a gunshot

   說聲「我愛你」／说声“我爱你”  ―  shuō shēng “wǒ ài nǐ”  ―  say "I love you"

   講聲「多謝」都冇 [Cantonese, trad.]
   讲声“多谢”都冇 [Cantonese, simp.]

   gong² seng¹ “do¹ ze⁶” dou¹ mou⁵ [Jyutping]

   without saying even "thank you"

7. (Cantonese) Suffix used to form adjectives with onomatopoeia.

   啦啦聲／啦啦声 [Cantonese]  ―  laa⁴ laa^4-2 seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  quick

   𠽌𠽌聲／𠽌𠽌声 [Cantonese]  ―  syut⁴ syut^4-2 seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  with a sucking sound

8. (Cantonese) Suffix used after large numerals to express the magnitude of a number.

   億億聲／亿亿声 [Cantonese]  ―  jik¹ jik¹ seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  in the magnitudes of hundreds of millions

9. (Cantonese, chiefly in the negative) to make a sound

   唔聲唔聲／唔声唔声 [Cantonese]  ―  m⁴ seng¹ m⁴ seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

   聲都唔聲／声都唔声 [Cantonese]  ―  seng¹ dou¹ m⁴ seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

10. (Chinese phonetics) initial

• (Cantonese suffix used to form onomatopoeia): This suffix is accompanied by a tone change in the reduplicated word, where the second occurrence is changed to the second tone (unless its original tone is the first or second tone), as seen in the examples above.

• (sound):

Others:

• → Thai: เสียง (sǐiang)
• → Vietnamese: tiếng (“voice; language; sound”)
• → Zhuang: sing

• “聲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03275

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 声)

1. voice

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: こえ (koe, 聲)^{←こゑ (kowe, 聲, historical)}; こわ (kowa, 聲)

聲(こえ) • (koe) ^{←こゑ (kowe)?}

1. Kyūjitai form of 声: voice

聲 (eumhun 소리 성 (sori seong))

1. Hanja form^? of 성 (“voice, sound”).

聲: Hán Việt readings: thanh[1][2]
聲: Nôm readings: thanh[1], thênh[1], thiêng[3][2], thinh[3][2], xênh[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of thanh (“linguistic tone, sound, voice”).
2. Nôm form of thinh (“silent”).
3. Nôm form of thiêng (“sacred”).