唱
chàng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To sing: to make music with the voice. Its usual object is 歌 'song': 唱歌 'to sing', 唱中国歌 'to sing Chinese songs'. How well someone sings follows with 得: 唱得很好 'sings well'.
Hát, ca: cất giọng thành bài hát, giai điệu. Tân ngữ quen thuộc nhất là 歌 (bài hát): 唱歌 (hát), 唱中国歌 (hát bài hát Trung Quốc). Hát hay hay dở thì nói bằng 得: 唱得很好 (hát hay).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “唱” mean?
To sing: to make music with the voice. Its usual object is 歌 'song': 唱歌 'to sing', 唱中国歌 'to sing Chinese songs'. How well someone sings follows with 得: 唱得很好 'sings well'.
Is “唱” formal or informal?
唱 is generally neutral.