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

loud voice / in a loud voice / loudly
in a low voice / (speak) in whispers
coda / epilogue / end
to lose one's voice / (to cry out) involuntarily
to call loudly (idiom); to get people's attention / to make one's views known
the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声 / the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
level or even tone / first and second tones in modern Mandarin
ideogram plus phonetic (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / also known as phonogram, phonetic compound or picto-phonetic character
(bird species of China) Indian cuckoo (Cuculus micropterus)
to spread one's voice wide (idiom); wide publicity
to wail loudly and mournfully (idiom)
comic crosstalk / formalized comic dialogue between two stand-up comics: funny man 逗哏[dou4 gen2] and straight man 捧哏[peng3 gen2]

Sentences with 聲

聲 currently does not appear in any sentence.