Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced seng

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced seng, including 僧 sēng. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

seng keeps the tongue flat behind the teeth for s (not curled), then glides into eng; say it in one beat and ride the tone through.

Keep the tongue flat and the sound clean.

eng is farther back than en.

Only one common character is read seng (僧 sēng) — focus on locking in its tone.

seng turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 1st tone here: 僧 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing seng inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.