sound / voice / tone / noise / reputation / classifier for sounds

= + + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) hears the terrifying sound (声) of bone (丨) on stone in front of the engine ((e)ng1), and he's sure that there must be a ghost (尸). Indeed it's only the bachelor (士) who wants to scare Sherlock.

聲 character breakdown

variant of 磬[qing4]
ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)

It ist what it looks like: an ear.

Characters with 聲 as component

聲 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 聲

ring / ringtone / bell stroke / tintinnabulation
quietly / softly / neutral tone / light stress
to vanish without trace (idiom) / to lie low
repeatedly (say something)
to parrot other people's words (idiom); to chime in with others
high and level tone, the first tone of putonghua
evenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua
rumble (sound of thunder or gunfire)
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom); a lot of talk, but no action / action speaks louder than words / his bite is worse than his bark
lit. loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom) / fig. a lot of talk, but no action
ultrasonic / beyond human hearing
to speak softly / to whisper (idiom)
outlandish sounds (wind blowing on frontier, wild horses neighing etc)
folk music of the state of Zheng 鄭|郑[Zheng4] / lascivious, decadent music
applause; cheering

Sentences with 聲

聲 currently does not appear in any sentence.