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嵩

sōng

Character

What 嵩 means

1. literary(of mountains) lofty

Other readings

嵩 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• SōngMt Song in Henan

Words starting with 嵩

• 嵩山Sōng ShānMt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五岳
• 嵩县Sōng XiànSong County or Songxian, a county in Luoyang City 洛阳市
• 嵩明县Sōng míng XiànSongming, a county in Kunming City 昆明市
• 嵩明Sōng míngsee 嵩明县

Words containing 嵩

• 皇甫嵩Huáng fǔ SōngHuangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord
• 郭嵩焘Guō Sōng tāoGuo Songtao (1818–1891), Chinese statesman and diplomat, served as minister to Britain…

Characters that look like 嵩

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 需xūto require; to need; to want
• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 奠diànto fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 凿záo(bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic…
• 蒿hāocelery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia); to give off; to weed
• 蓖bìthe castor-oil plant

Sounds the same

Read sōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 松pine
• 菘(cabbage); Brassica chinensis
• 忪used in 惺忪
• 凇icicle
• 娀name of an ancient state
• 濍(onomatopoeia) sound of water
• 蜙used in 蜙蝑
• 淞name of a river in Jiangsu Province
• 崧variant of 嵩
• 梥old variant of 松