诵

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to read aloud; to recite

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 甬 sound ( yǒng )

Components 讠甬

read aloud · Heisig RSH #2444

words + chop-rack

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
诵读困难症	sòng dú kùn nan zhèng	dyslexia
诵经	sòng jīng	to chant the sutras
传诵	chuán sòng	widely known; on everyone's lips
联诵	lián sòng	liaison (in phonetics) (loanword)
背诵	bèi sòng	to recite; to repeat from memory
李诵	Lǐ Sòng	Li Song, personal name of eleventh Tang emperor Shunzong 順宗\|顺宗[Shun4 zong1] (761-806), rei…
告诵	gào sòng	to tell; to inform
念诵	niàn sòng	to read out; to recite; to remember sb (while talking about sth else)
诵读	sòng dú	to read aloud
朗诵	lǎng sòng	to read aloud with expression; to recite; to declaim
默诵	mò sòng	to recite silently; to chant silently
吟诵	yín sòng	to read aloud; to recite rhythmically; to chant; to intone (esp. poems in rhythm)

Characters sharing the sound component 甬 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
甬 sound part	yǒng	path; river in Ningbo; Ningbo
通	tōng	to pass through, to open, to connect; to communicate; common
痛	tòng	ache, pain; bitterness, sorrow; deeply, thoroughly
勇	yǒng	brave, courageous, fierce
涌	yǒng	to surge up, to bubble up, to gush forth
桶	tǒng	bucket, pail, tub; can, cask, keg
俑	yǒng	wooden figure buried with dead
蛹	yǒng	pupa, chrysalis
捅	tǒng	to jab, to poke
恿	yǒng	to instigate, to incite, to alarm
埇	yǒng	the name of a bridge
踊	yǒng	to leap
勈	yǒng	brave