聲說

Chinese

		sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds) sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise	to speak; to say; persuade (politically)
trad. (聲說/聲説)		聲	說/説
simp. (声说)		声	说

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēngshuō

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥㄕㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹ syut³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâng-sot
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sia¹ suei⁶ / siann¹ suei⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siaⁿ-seh / siaⁿ-serh / siaⁿ-soeh

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēngshuō
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥㄕㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shengshuo
  - Wade–Giles: shêng¹-shuo¹
  - Yale: shēng-shwō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengshuo
  - Palladius: шэншо (šɛnšo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sing¹ syut³
  - Yale: sīng syut
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹ syt⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: xing¹ xud³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵ syːt̚³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâng-sot
  - Hakka Romanization System: sang^ˊ sod^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sang¹ sod⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /saŋ²⁴ sot̚²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sia¹ suei⁶ [Phonetic: sia² luei⁶]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: siaⁿ-sōi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬia⁵³³⁻¹³ ^(ɬ-)luei¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: siann¹ suei⁶ [Phonetic: siann² nuei⁶]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬĩã⁵⁴⁴⁻²⁴ ^(ɬ-)nuei²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siaⁿ-seh
  - Tâi-lô: siann-seh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sviaseq
  - IPA (Philippines): /siã³³ seʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siã⁴⁴⁻³³ seʔ³²/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siã⁴⁴⁻²² seʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siaⁿ-serh
  - Tâi-lô: siann-serh
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siã³³ səʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siaⁿ-soeh
  - Tâi-lô: siann-sueh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sviasoeq
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siã⁴⁴⁻²² sueʔ³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siã⁴⁴⁻³³ sueʔ³²/

Verb

聲說

(literary) to explain; to state

Noun

聲說

(Hokkien, Puxian Min) voice (sound of speech)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 聲音 (“voice; sound”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		聲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		聲音, 聲響, 響聲, 響, 聲, 音, 音聲, 音響 acoustics
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	聲兒, 聲音
	Taiwan	聲音
	Malaysia	聲音
	Singapore	聲音
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	聲音, 聲兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	聲音, 聲
Central Plains Mandarin	Xining	聲氣
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	聲氣, 聲音
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	聲氣, 聲音
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	聲音, 聲
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	聲音
Cantonese	Guangzhou	聲音, 聲
	Hong Kong	聲, 聲音
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	聲
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	聲
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	聲
	Taishan	聲
	Yangjiang	聲
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	聲
	Singapore (Guangfu)	聲
Gan	Nanchang	聲氣
	Lichuan	聲
	Pingxiang	聲
Hakka	Meixian	聲音, 聲
	Huiyang	聲
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	聲
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	聲
	Wengyuan	聲音
	Liannan	聲
	Jiexi	聲
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	聲
	Changting	聲氣
	Wuping (Yanqian)	聲音
	Ninghua	聲音
	Ningdu	聲音
	Shangyou (Shexi)	聲音
	Tonggu (Sandu)	聲音
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	聲音
	Dayu	聲響
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	聲音, 聲
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	聲音, 聲
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	聲音, 聲
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	聲音, 聲
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	聲音, 聲
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	聲音
	Hong Kong	聲音, 聲
	Yangxi (Tangkou)	聲
	Yangchun (Sanjia)	聲音
	Xinyi (Sihe)	聲
	Xinyi (Qianpai)	聲
	Gaozhou (Xindong)	聲
	Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai)	聲
	Huazhou (Xin'an)	聲
	Lianjiang (Shijiao)	聲, 聲音
	Lianjiang (Qingping)	聲
	Mengshan (Xihe)	聲音
	Luchuan	聲音
	Senai (Huiyang)	聲
Huizhou	Jixi	聲音
Jin	Taiyuan	聲音, 音聲
Northern Min	Jian'ou	聲音
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	聲音, 聲
Southern Min	Xiamen	聲, 聲說 voice
	Quanzhou	聲, 聲說 voice
	Zhangzhou	聲, 聲說 voice
	Taipei	聲 GT, 聲說 GT, voice
	Kaohsiung	聲
	Yilan	聲
	Changhua (Lukang)	聲
	Taichung	聲
	Taichung (Wuqi)	聲
	Tainan	聲
	Taitung	聲音
	Hsinchu	聲
	Penghu (Magong)	聲
	Penang (Hokkien)	聲
	Singapore (Hokkien)	聲
	Manila (Hokkien)	聲
	Chaozhou	聲
	Shantou	聲
	Jieyang	聲
	Haifeng	聲說
	Bangkok (Teochew)	聲
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	聲
	Singapore (Teochew)	聲
	Leizhou	聲
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	聲
Wu	Shanghai	聲音
	Shanghai (Chongming)	聲音
	Suzhou	聲音, 響聲
	Ningbo	聲音, 聲響
	Wenzhou	聲音, 聲響
Xiang	Changsha	聲音
	Loudi	聲
	Shuangfeng	聲音, 聲響
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

無聲無說 / 无声无说

References

“聲說”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 33.