唱歌

唱歌

Chinese

		sing; to call loudly; to chant	song
simp. and trad. (唱歌)		唱	歌
anagram		歌唱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chànggē

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˋ ㄍㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng³ go¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhong-kô
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiùⁿ-koa / chhiòⁿ-koa / chhiò-koa / chhiàng-ko / chhiàuⁿ-koa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciang³ go¹ / cio³ gua¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): tshaan ku (T2); tshaan (T2) + ku (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chànggē
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˋ ㄍㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chàngge
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang⁴-ko¹
    • Yale: chàng-gē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chanqge
    • Palladius: чангэ (čangɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹ kɤ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (唱歌兒／唱歌儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chànggēr
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˋ ㄍㄜㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chàngger
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang⁴-kêrh¹
    • Yale: chàng-gēr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chanqge'l
    • Palladius: чангэр (čangɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹ kɤɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng³ go¹
    • Yale: cheung gō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng³ go¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng³ go¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœːŋ³³ kɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhong-kô
    • Hakka Romanization System: cong go´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cong⁴ go¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵ ko²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiùⁿ-koa
    • Tâi-lô: tshiùnn-kua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chviuo'koaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiũ²¹⁻⁵³ kua⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiũ²¹⁻⁴¹ kua⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiũ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kua³³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /t͡ɕʰiũ²¹⁻⁴² kua⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiũ¹¹⁻⁵³ kua⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiòⁿ-koa
    • Tâi-lô: tshiònn-kua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chvioirkoaf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔ̃²¹⁻⁵³ kua⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiò-koa
    • Tâi-lô: tshiò-kua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chioirkoaf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰio²¹⁻⁵³ kua⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiàng-ko
    • Tâi-lô: tshiàng-ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiarngkoy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaŋ²¹⁻⁵³ ko⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiàuⁿ-koa
    • Tâi-lô: tshiàunn-kua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chviao'koaf
    • IPA (Penang): /t͡ɕʰiãu²¹⁻³³ kua³³/

Note: chhiàng-ko - in more formal settings.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ciang³ go¹ / cio³ gua¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiàng ko / tshiò kua
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ko³³/, /t͡sʰio²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kua³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tshaan ku (T2); tshaan (T2) + ku (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑ̃³³ kv̩ʷ⁴⁴/, /t͡sʰɑ̃⁴⁴  kv̩ʷ⁵³/

Verb

唱歌

1. to sing (songs)
2. (Canada) to partake in a citizenship ceremony
3. (Wu, humorous) to urinate

Synonyms

• (to sing): 歌唱 (gēchàng)

Dialectal synonyms of 撒尿 (“to urinate”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		小遺
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		小便, 小解, 泌尿, 排尿
Mandarin	Beijing	撒尿, 尿尿, 解小手兒
	Taiwan	撒尿, 小便, 尿尿, 上一號, 上小號
	Tianjin	解小手兒
	Harbin	小便, 尿尿, 解小手兒, 放水
	Yantai (Muping)	尿尿
	Jinan	尿尿, 解小手, 小便
	Luoyang	小便, 尿尿, 解小手兒, 放水
	Wanrong	尿尿
	Xi'an	尿尿
	Yinchuan	尿尿, 解手
	Lanzhou	尿尿, 消水
	Xining	解小手, 解手, 尿尿, 消水, 小便
	Ürümqi	尿尿, 小便, 解小手
	Wuhan	屙尿, 解小手, 打岔, 打小岔
	Chengdu	屙尿, 解小手
	Guiyang	屙尿, 解小手, 解小便, 解手, 放水
	Kunming	解小手, 撒尿
	Liuzhou	屙尿, 解小手, 解小便, 射尿
	Xuzhou	尿尿, 解小手, 小解, 小便
	Yangzhou	尿尿, 出小恭, 解手, 方便, 小便
	Nanjing	撒尿
	Hefei	撒尿, 尿尿
	Nantong	拆尿, 尿尿
	Malaysia	尿, 小便 childish
	Singapore	小便
Cantonese	Guangzhou	屙尿, 小便, 放輕 slang, 放水 slang, 放低二兩 slang
	Hong Kong	屙尿, 小便, 殊殊 childish, 屙殊殊 childish, 放水 slang, 放低二兩 slang, 揸水 slang, 交水費 slang, 擺柳 slang
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	屙尿
	Macau	屙尿, 小便
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	屙尿
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	屙尿
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	屙尿
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	屙尿
	Foshan	屙尿
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	屙尿
	Foshan (Shunde)	屙尿
	Foshan (Sanshui)	屙尿
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	屙尿
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	屙尿
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	屙尿
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	屙尿
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	屙尿
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	屙尿
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	屙尿
	Taishan	屙尿
	Kaiping (Chikan)	屙尿, 放二兩
	Enping (Niujiang)	屙尿
	Heshan (Yayao)	屙尿
	Dongguan	屙尿
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	屙尿
	Yangjiang	屙尿
	Zhanjiang	擺柳
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	屙尿
	Singapore (Guangfu)	屙尿
Gan	Nanchang	屙尿, 解小手
	Lichuan	屙尿
	Pingxiang	屙尿, 解小手
Hakka	Meixian	屙尿
	Changting	屙尿
	Yudu	屙尿
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	屙尿
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	屙尿
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	屙尿
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	屙尿
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	屙尿
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	屙尿
	Senai (Huiyang)	屙尿
	Kuching (Hepo)	屙尿
Huizhou	Jixi	屙尿
Jin	Taiyuan	尿尿
Min Dong	Fuzhou	拉尿, 小解
Min Nan	Xiamen	放尿, 濺尿
	Quanzhou	放尿, 濺尿
	Zhangzhou	放尿, 濺尿
	Zhao'an	放尿
	Taipei	放尿
	Kaohsiung	放尿
	Penang (Hokkien)	放尿
	Singapore (Hokkien)	放尿, 濺尿
	Manila (Hokkien)	放尿, 小便
	Chaozhou	放尿
	Shantou	放尿
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	放尿
	Jieyang	放尿
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	放尿
	Singapore (Teochew)	放尿
	Pontianak (Teochew)	放尿
	Leizhou	放尿
	Wenchang	放尿
	Haikou	放尿
	Singapore (Hainanese)	放尿
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	屙尿
Wu	Shanghai	拆尿, 惹尿, 小便, 小解, 解小溲, 交水費, 唱歌 humorous, 噓噓, 拆尿尿 childish, 惹尿尿 childish, 小溲 dated
	Shanghai (Chongming)	射尿
	Suzhou	拆尿, 惹尿
	Wuxi	惹尿
	Danyang	渣尿
	Hangzhou	惹尿
	Ningbo	惹尿
	Wenzhou	拉尿
	Jinhua	射尿, 泡尿, 放尿
Xiang	Changsha	屙尿, 解小手
	Loudi	屙尿, 射尿, 解小手, 屙稀稀 childish
	Shuangfeng	屙尿

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
唱	歌
しょう Grade: 4	か Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) しょ​ーか [shóꜜòkà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːka̠]

Noun

唱(しょう)歌(か) • (shōka) ^{←しやうか (syauka)?}

1. singing, songs
2. (historical) the school subject of music; or, a song produced for it

   「鉄道(てつどう)唱歌(しょうか)」

   “Tetsudō Shōka”

   "Railway Song"

Verb

唱(しょう)歌(か)する • (shōka suru) suru (stem 唱(しょう)歌(か)し (shōka shi), past 唱(しょう)歌(か)した (shōka shita))

1. to sing

Conjugation

Conjugation of "唱歌する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	唱歌し	しょうかし	shōka shi
Continuative (連用形)	唱歌し	しょうかし	shōka shi
Terminal (終止形)	唱歌する	しょうかする	shōka suru
Attributive (連体形)	唱歌する	しょうかする	shōka suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	唱歌すれ	しょうかすれ	shōka sure
Imperative (命令形)	唱歌せよ¹ 唱歌しろ²	しょうかせよ¹ しょうかしろ²	shōka seyo¹ shōka shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	唱歌される	しょうかされる	shōka sareru
Causative	唱歌させる 唱歌さす	しょうかさせる しょうかさす	shōka saseru shōka sasu
Potential	唱歌できる	しょうかできる	shōka dekiru
Volitional	唱歌しよう	しょうかしよう	shōka shiyō
Negative	唱歌しない	しょうかしない	shōka shinai
Negative continuative	唱歌せず	しょうかせず	shōka sezu
Formal	唱歌します	しょうかします	shōka shimasu
Perfective	唱歌した	しょうかした	shōka shita
Conjunctive	唱歌して	しょうかして	shōka shite
Hypothetical conditional	唱歌すれば	しょうかすれば	shōka sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

1. 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.