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誦

sòng

recite, chant, repeat

Strokes
14
Radical
言
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 诵

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 诵, the simplified form of 誦. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 他的女儿能背诵很多诗。

    Tā de nǚ ér néng bèi sòng hěn duō shī

    His daughter is able to recite a lot of poems.

  • 我最讨厌背诵课文了。

    Wǒ zuì tǎo yàn bèi sòng kè wén le

    What I hate most of all is having to recite texts from memory.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 诵

  • 背诵bèi sòng 4–4 to recite; to repeat from memory
  • 朗诵lǎng sòng 3–4 to read aloud with expression; to recite; to declaim