to excite / to raise up / to shrug / high / lofty / towering
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How to pronounce 聳

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= su initial

Su is for Susan Spider.

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+ (e)ng3 final

In the engine’s living room.

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聳 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
from / through / via / to follow / to obey / to engage in (an activity) / never (in negative sentence) / (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
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ěr = Ø + Ø3
ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
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Characters with 聳 as component

聳 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 聳

to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to startle sb with scary tale

Sentences with 聳

聳 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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Make it your learning target and MandarinBanana works out the shortest route to it: the two sounds its syllable is built from, then the components of the character itself, one short step at a time. No account needed to start.

sǒng

to excite / to raise up / to shrug / high / lofty / towering

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