声

声 U+58F0, 声 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58F0 ← 壯 [U+58EF] CJK Unified Ideographs 壱 → [U+58F1]

Stroke order

Japanese	声
Simplified	声
Traditional	聲

声 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土日竹 (GAH), four-corner 4020₇, composition ⿱士𠃜)

• 𠴢, 𬊽, 𨧅, 𡁩, 𫯆, 𫸌, 𪤲, 殸, 𭮶, 𮊩, 𰋌, 𤍌, 𫯅, 𫯇, 𥭺, 𡳦, 𤭩, 𣼘, 𰦂, 𪇟

• 聲 (Orthodox traditional form of 声)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5645
• Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 429, character 1
• Unihan data for U+58F0

Simplified from 聲 (elimination of 殳 and 耳). The character itself is a pictogram (象形) of a stone chime. See 殸.

For pronunciation and definitions of 声 – see 聲 (“sound; noise; voice; music; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 聲).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

For pronunciation and definitions of 声 – see 磬 (“stone chimes; sounding stone; qing; inverted bell”). (This character is a variant form of 磬).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03275-001
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02865-004

Shinjitai	声
Kyūjitai	聲

(Second grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 聲)

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō ^†)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: こえ (koe, 声, Jōyō)^{←こゑ (kowe, 声, historical)}、こわ (kowa, 声, Jōyō ^†)
• Nanori: おと (oto)、かた (kata)、ちか (chika)、な (na)、のぶ (nobu)、もり (mori)

Kanji in this term
声
こえ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
聲 (kyūjitai)

⟨ko₂we⟩ → */kəwe/ → /kowe/ → /koe/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kəwai.

Further derivation unknown.

• (Tokyo) こえ [kóꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞e̞]

声(こえ) • (koe) ^{←こゑ (kowe)?}

1. a voice
   • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 1, poem 16)^[3]

     野(の)辺(べ)ちかく家(いへ)居(ゐ)しせればうぐひすのなくなるこゑは朝(あさ)な朝(あさ)なきく

     nobe chikaku iei shisereba uguisu no naku naru koe ni wa asa na asa na kiku

     Because I make my home near the fields and meadows, each and every morning, I hear the song of the mountain thrush trilling spring.^[4]

2. an accent
3. a feedback
4. (in the form ～の声を聞く (...no koe o kiku), lit. “listenable voice”) a feeling, sound, or tone of something
5. a voiced sound
6. (archaic) a Sino-Japanese pronunciation or reading of a Chinese character, as opposed to its 訓 (kun) or native Japanese counterpart

• 声(こえ)を殺(ころ)す (koe o korosu)
• 声(こえ)を出(だ)す (koe o dasu)

Kanji in this term
声
せい Grade: 2
kan'on

Alternative spelling
聲 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 聲 (MC syeng).

声(せい) • (sei) 

1. voice
2. speech, word
3. fame, honor, reputation
4. Chinese character pronunciation

Kanji in this term
声
しょう Grade: 2
goon

Alternative spelling
聲 (kyūjitai)

/sjau/ → /ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese 聲 (MC syeng).

声(しょう) • (shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. a voice, speech
2. a tone
3. a variation of stress in pronunciation
4. Short for 声点 (shōten): a tone mark (in Middle Chinese)

• 乱(らん)声(じょう) (ranjō)
• 連(れん)声(じょう) (renjō)

声(しょう) • (shō) ^{←しやう (syau)?}

1. voice, sound
2. expression, speech
3. tone (in Chinese linguistics)

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: くぃー (kwī, 声)

Kanji in this term
声
くぃー Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
聲 (kyūjitai)

Cognate with modern Japanese 声 (koe).

• (Shuri) くぃー [kwìì] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kwiː]

声(くぃー) (kwī) 

1. a voice
2. a news, word, or something said (of someone)

   声(くぃー)聞(ち)ちゅん

   kwī chichun

   to hear (about somebody), to hear word (of someone), to catch wind (of someone)

• “くぃー【声】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.