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颂

sòng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 頌

What 颂 means

1. ode
2. eulogy
3. to praise in writing
4. to wish (in letters)

Example sentences

• 你会用法文唱圣诞颂歌吗？
  Can you sing any Christmas carols in French?
• 伦敦东区歌手查斯和戴夫最近凭借重新发行的 1982 年赞颂海滨一日游的歌曲《马盖特》进入了英国黑胶单曲排行榜前十名。
  Cockney songsters Chas & Dave were recently in the top ten of the UK Vinyl Singles Chart with a reissue of their 1982 paean to days out at the seaside, Margate.

Words starting with 颂

• 颂扬sòng yángto eulogize; to praise
• 颂歌sòng gēcarol
• 颂词sòng cícommendation speech; eulogy; ode
• 颂赞sòng zànto praise
• 颂声载道sòng shēng zài dàolit. praise fills the roads (idiom); praise everywhere; universal approbation
• 颂辞sòng cívariant of 颂词

Words containing 颂

• 歌颂gē sòngto sing the praises of; to extol; to eulogize
• 赞颂zàn sòngto bless; to praise
• 歌功颂德gē gōng sòng déto sing sb's praises (mostly derogatory)
• 称颂chēng sòngto praise
• 传颂chuán sòngto eulogize; to pass on praise
• 可颂kě sòngcroissant (loanword)
• 祝颂zhù sòngto express good wishes
• 香颂xiāng sòng(loanword) chanson
• 巴颂管bā sòng guǎn(Taiwan; loanword) bassoon
• 荣光颂róng guāng sòngGloria (in Catholic mass)
• 圣诞颂Shèng dàn SòngA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Characters built on 公

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

• 松sōngpine
• 讼sònglitigation
• 蚣gōngused in 蜈蚣
• 忪sōngused in 惺忪
• 彸zhōngrestless, agitated

Characters that look like 颂

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

• 领lǐngneck; collar; to lead
• 顿dùnto stop; to pause; to arrange
• 顺shùnto obey; to follow; to arrange
• 倾qīngto overturn; to collapse; to lean
• 帧zhēnframe; classifier for paintings etc; Taiwan pr. zhèng
• 殒yǔn(literary) to perish; to die

Sounds the same

Read sòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 送to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off
• 讼litigation
• 诵to read aloud; to recite
• 𩠌(Cantonese) dish, usu. eaten with rice
• 宋surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋
• 吅variant of 讼
• 㮸variant of 送