咏
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to sing
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 咏
- Common rank
- #3,564
- Unicode
- U+548F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咏春拳 | Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese martial art) | |
| 咏叹调 | aria | |
| 咏春 | Wing Chun; same as 詠春拳|咏春拳[yong3 chun1 quan2]; Yongchun - "Singing Spring Fist" (Chinese m… | |
| 歌咏 | to sing | |
| 袁咏仪 | Anita Yuen (1971-), Hong Kong actress | |
| 吟咏 | to recite; to sing (of poetry) | |
| 谭咏麟 | Alan Tam (1950-), Hong Kong Canto-pop singer and actor |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 永 — compare how they read.