Chinese Character Wiki

頌

sòng

laud

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound.

Components
頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

公 sound component

公  Sound component

gōng

  

public

Evolution

頌 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
頌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
頌 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
頌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

颂 (頌) 

sòng

laud, acclaim; hymn; ode; eulogy; to praise in writing; to wish (in letters)

Most common words with 頌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颂

ode

歌颂

to extol

颂歌

carol

赞颂

to bless

颂扬

to eulogize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ](r)oŋ

yowng

róng

appearance

*s-[ɢ]oŋ-s

zjowngH

sòng

praise


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0915% of movies

2752nd most common character in movies

2414th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

颂

Unicode

U+980C

Shuowen

“頌，皃也。从頁，公聲。，籀文。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License