IDENTITY
唱chàngto sing
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
to sing
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to singHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口昌
- mouth
- gives the sound chàng
USAGE
Common words
唱歌chànggēto sing
合唱héchàngchorus
Graded examples
我们一起唱歌吧。Wǒmen yìqǐ chànggē ba.HSK2
Let’s sing together.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) bright and loud (昌) — singing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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