噌 (cēng)

whoosh (sound of rapid movement)

How 噌 is written

Strokes
15
Radical
口 — mouth
Traditional
噌
Simplified
噌 (unchanged)

Components

噌 has 2 readings

The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.

cēng
to scold; whoosh!
chēng
sound of bells etc

噌 in a sentence

貓噌的一下跳到了桌上。

Māo cēng de yíxià tiào dào le zhuō shàng.

“The cat jumped onto the table with a whoosh.”

How common is 噌?

噌 is the 5,578th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 100% of all running text.

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