Chinese word dictionary

谐声

xié shēng · combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1]); (of words or characters) homophonous

Word information

Simplified谐声
Traditional諧聲
Pinyinxié shēng
Part of speechDictionary
HSK 3.0Not listed
HSK 2.0Not listed

How to learn 谐声

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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