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声称

shēng chēng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 聲稱

声称 (shēng chēng) means "to claim; to state; to proclaim". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 声称 means

1. to claim
2. to state
3. to proclaim
4. to assert

The characters in 声称

• 声shēngsound; voice; tone
• 称chēngto weigh; to state; to name

Example sentences

• 她声称自己没罪。
  She declared that she was not guilty.
• 胜声称他是无辜的。
  Shèng shēngchēng tā shì wúgū de.
  Masaru claims that he is innocent.
• 汤姆声称他不记得了。
  Tāngmǔ shēngchēng tā bù jìde le.
  Tom claims he doesn't remember.
• 汤姆和玛丽声称他们很快乐。
  Tom and Mary claim that they're happy.
• 声称钱不是幸福的一个要素是愚蠢的。
  Shēngchēng qián bù shì xìngfú de yī gè yàosù shì yúchǔn de.
  Claiming that money is not a requirement for happiness is foolish.
• 若要声称性别是二元的，就需要忽视阴阳人，这是不科学的，且纯粹属于意识形态问题。
  To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng chēng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.