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歌声

gēshēng

singing voice

HSK 3 · Topic “Stage and arts”
A singer with flowing sound ribbons
Memory picture

Characters in this word

歌 gē

Strokes
14
Radical
欠 — to lack, to owe
Made of
哥 elder brother 欠 to lack, to owe
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

声 shēng

Strokes
7
Radical
士 — scholar, gentleman
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 歌声很好听。 Gēshēng hěn hǎotīng. The singing voice sounds beautiful.
  • 我听见歌声。 Wǒ tīngjiàn gēshēng. I hear a singing voice.
  • 歌声传来了。 Gēshēng chuán lái le. A singing voice comes over.

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