to read aloud / to recite

= + : For every victim she catches in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) Susan Saint Bernard (su) tolls a bell (甬) she hang on an advertising column (讠) and recites (诵) a poem.

誦 character breakdown

Yong River 甬江[Yong3 Jiang1] in Ningbo 寧波|宁波[Ning2 bo1] / short name for Ningbo
variant of 桶[tong3], bucket / (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter)
path screened by walls on both sides

= + : Mnemonic symbol: The path screened by walls to both sides could be the grave of Marquis Yi of Zeng. In his grave, a massive set of 64 bianzhong bells was found, of which 45 were 甬钟 bells. Thus, I'm going to represent 甬 by one of these yongzhong bells.

= + : Inside of the engine, Yu the Great wanted to learn how to box. She made the right choice to wear boxing gloves, but as she had no punchbag she used a 甬钟. Like a boss she entered the ring through a path screened by walls on both sides. Unfortunately after her first punch she already had to use the first aid kit, because the bell was way too hard.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

Characters with 誦 as component

誦 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 誦

to recite / to repeat from memory
to read aloud with expression / to recite / to declaim
to read aloud / to recite rhythmically / to chant / to intone (esp. poems in rhythm)
to chant the sutras
to read out / to recite / to remember sb (while talking about sth else)
widely known / on everyone's lips
to chant the names of Buddha
to tell / to inform
variant of 弦誦不輟|弦诵不辍[xian2 song4 bu4 chuo4]
incessant playing of instruments and reciting of poems (idiom)
Li Song, personal name of eleventh Tang emperor Shunzong 順宗|顺宗[Shun4 zong1] (761-806), reigned 805-806
liaison (in phonetics) (loanword)

Sentences with 誦

誦 currently does not appear in any sentence.