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頌: eulogy

JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

頁 carries the meaning · 公 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ショウshou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 頌栄しょうえいdoxology
  • 頌詞しょうし(words of) praise; eulogy

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 頌いわいうたfestive poem or song

Also read ジュ, ヨウ, かたち, たたえる, ほめる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
頌 eulogy · 公
vs頒 distribute · 分
頌 has 公 where 頒 has 分.
In ChineseSimplified 颂 · traditional, as in Japanese · sòng

Japan keeps the traditional form 頌; mainland China simplifies it to 颂.

Simplified
颂 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
頌 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin sòng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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