Hanja Analyzer
声

声 — seong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
소리 성
Romanization
seong
English
sound, voice, noise; tone; music
Mandarin
shēng
Japanese on'yomi
セイ, ショウ, ケイ
Japanese kun'yomi
こえ こわ-
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 2
Newspaper frequency
#388 of 2,500
Strokes
7
Variant forms
聲
Radical
士 (33, 4 residual)
Unicode
U+58F0

Japanese words with 声

  • 声こえ voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect)
  • 声明せいめい declaration; statement; proclamation
  • 音声おんせい voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme)
  • 歓声かんせい cheer; shout of joy
  • 声援せいえん (shout of) encouragement; cheering; rooting
  • 声楽せいがく vocal music
  • 第一声だいいっせい first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech
  • 掛け声かけごえ shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")
  • 歌声うたごえ singing voice; (sound of) singing
  • 声高こわだか loud (of a voice)
  • 銃声じゅうせい sound of a gunshot; report of a gun
  • 鳴き声なきごえ cry (of an animal); call; chirp

Other hanja read “성”

Other hanja with radical 士

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