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耸

sǒng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 聳

耸 (sǒng) means "to excite; to raise up; to shrug". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 耸 means

1. to excite
2. to raise up
3. to shrug
4. high
5. lofty
6. towering

Example sentences

• 她耸了耸肩。
  Tā sǒng le sǒngjiān.
  She shrugged her shoulders.
• 我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀着矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指着前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」
  Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Words starting with 耸

• 耸立sǒng lìto stand tall; to tower aloft
• 耸肩sǒng jiānto shrug one's shoulders
• 耸人听闻sǒng rén tīng wénto sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
• 耸动sǒng dòngto shake (a part of one's body); to shrug (shoulders); to create a sensation

Words containing 耸

• 高耸gāo sǒngerect; towering; to stand tall
• 危言耸听wēi yán sǒng tīngfrightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk; reds under the beds
• 高耸入云gāo sǒng rù yúntall and erect, reaching through the clouds (idiom)…
• 危辞耸听wēi cí sǒng tīngto startle sb with scary tale

Characters built on 从

These share the phonetic component 从 (cóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 众zhòng(bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
• 纵zòngvertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. zōng); from front to back; longitudinal…
• 丛cóngcluster; collection; collection of books
• 怂sǒngused in 怂恿; (literary) terrified
• 疭zòngused in 瘛疭
• 枞cōngfir tree
• 苁cōngBoschniakia glabra

Characters that look like 耸

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

• 面miànface; side; surface
• 章zhāngchapter; section; clause
• 拿náto hold; to seize; to catch
• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 庸yōngordinary; to use
• 耷dā(literary) big ears; (bound form) to droop

Sounds the same

Read sǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 悚frightened
• 竦respectful; horrified; to raise (one's shoulders)
• 㧐(literary) to stand upright; (dialect) to push; to shove
• 怂used in 怂恿; (literary) terrified
• 愯old variant of 悚

Where 耸 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · sǐ–sù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sǒng correctly.
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