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Kanji Detail for 聲 - "voice, music, reputation, tone, initial"
聲
- Meaning
聲 means "voice, music, reputation, tone, initial."
Voice - Sound; words; a cry.
Music - Musical sound.
Reputation - Rumor; fame.
Tone - The four tones of Chinese character pronunciation.
Initial - An initial consonant.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sound; voice; noise; tone; music
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sound, voice, noise; tone; music
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
sound, noise; voice, tone, music
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
What the auditory organ perceives. When any object vibrates and stirs the air, sound is produced. Anciently, these were classified by their clarity and pitch into the five tones: gong, shang, jue, zhi, and yu. Musical instruments use these as standards. Human voice is divided into the four tones: level, rising, departing, and entering. Character pronunciation uses these as standards. | Music. Such as 聲容 (voice and appearance), 聲色 (music and women). | Speech. Addressing words is called 致聲. | Reputation. (Mencius) "Hence one's reputation exceeds the reality." | To proclaim. Such as 聲罪致討 (proclaim crimes and launch attack). Now declaring something is also called 聲明 (declare).
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