送
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to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 辵 +6
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 送
- Common rank
- #796
- Unicode
- U+9001
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 送 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person waving 关 to someone walking away 辶
How to remember it
deliver · Heisig RSH #1470
golden calf + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 送
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白发人送黑发人 | to see one's child die before oneself | |
| 光发送器 | optical transmitter | |
| 不送气 | unaspirated | |
| 发送器 | transmitter | |
| 行李传送带 | luggage conveyor belt; baggage carousel | |
| 日本放送协会 | NHK (Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai), Japanese national broadcasting company | |
| 养生送死 | to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom) | |
| 不送 | don't bother to see me out | |
| 送人 | to give away; to accompany; to see sb off | |
| 送中 | to extradite to mainland China | |
| 送货到家 | home delivery | |
| 送行 | to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party | |
| 传送带 | conveyor belt; transmission belt | |
| 送气 | aspiration (phonetics, explosion of breath on consonants distinguishing Chinese p, t from … | |
| 分送 | to send; to distribute | |
| 发送 | to transmit; to dispatch; to issue (an official document or credential) | |
| 传送服务 | delivery service | |
| 千里送鹅毛，礼轻人意重 | goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the p… | |
| 礼轻人意重，千里送鹅毛 | goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the p… | |
| 送礼会 | shower (for bride, baby etc) |