hsing shêng

[ shing-shuhng ]

/ ˈʃɪŋ ˈʃʌŋ /

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noun

the process by which many Chinese characters were formed through the combination of two symbols, one phonographic and one logographic, into a single character.

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Origin of hsing shêng

<Chinese (Wade-Giles) hsing2 shêng1, (pinyin) xíngshēng shape and sound (of voice)

Words nearby hsing shêng

Hsia Kuei, Hsia-men, Hsian, Hsiang, hsien, hsing shêng, Hsin-hai-lien, Hsin Hsüeh, Hsining, Hsinking, H.S.M.

How to use hsing shêng in a sentence

The following day, Railways Minister Sheng Guangzu arrived in Wenzhou to coordinate rescue efforts.
China’s Weibo Losing Users|Matt Schiavenza|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
America needs someone to be the face of table tennis, and Hsing has that potential.
Ping-Pong: America’s Most Overlooked Sport?|Matt Simon|August 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
“Ariel Hsing's match was the highlight of the Olympics for me,” NBC table-tennis commentator Ari Wolfe told me.
Ping-Pong: America’s Most Overlooked Sport?|Matt Simon|August 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The water (of the lake Kung-sheng) flows westwards for more than 50 li, and forms another lake, 80 li wide, and without an outlet.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)|Sven Hedin

Mr. Hua Hsing-tun was a well-to-do farmer, who had in his courtyard a handsome pomegranate tree of which he was very proud.
Village Life in China|Arthur H. Smith
Wei-sheng Mou, addressing Confucius, said: Chiu, why is it you keep hopping about thus from place to place?
The Sayings of Confucius|Confucius
The normal price of maize is sixteen cash the sheng, it now cost sixty-five cash the sheng.
An Australian in China|George Ernest Morrison
In the Yangtsze valley, Sheng, the director-general of railways, had been negotiating with several competing syndicates.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2|Various