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Sound in Chinese

sound · HSK 3

声 shēng

Counted with 个: 一个声 yí gè shēng

你大点声,我听不见。 Speak louder, I can't hear you.

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Other ways to say sound

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How do you say sound in Chinese?

Sound in Chinese is 声 (shēng). You can also say 声音 (shēng yīn), 响 (xiǎng), 响声 (xiǎng shēng), 健全 (jiàn quán).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

More free tools

Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.

Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.