聳 (sǒng)
to shrug; to tower aloft
How 聳 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 彳 — step
- Traditional
- 聳
- Simplified
- 耸
Components
- 彳 step
- 从 N/A
- 龰 N/A
- 耳 ear
Common words using 聳
- 聳立 sǒnglì
- towering (of object placed high over sth)
- 高聳 gāosǒng
- erect; towering; to stand tall
- 危言聳聽 wēiyánsǒngtīng
- frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk; reds under the beds
- 聳人聽聞 sǒngréntīngwén
- to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
- 聳動 sǒngdòng
- to shake (a part of one's body); to shrug (shoulders); to create a sensation
- 聳肩 sǒngjiān
- to shrug one's shoulders
- 高聳入雲 gāosǒngrùyún
- tall and erect, reaching through the clouds (idiom); used to describe tall mountain or skyscraper
聳 in a sentence
他聳聳肩，表示他不知道這件事。
Tā sǒngsong jiān, biǎoshì tā bù zhīdào zhè jiàn shì.
“He shrugged his shoulders to indicate he didn't know about this matter.”
How common is 聳?
聳 is the 2,158th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.7% of all running text.
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