送 sòng — to see somebody off, to accompany; to deliver, to send; to give as a present
sòng (fourth tone, falling)
to see somebody off, to accompany; to deliver, to send; to give as a present
9 strokesRadical 辵Frequency #499
Pinyin
- sòng (fourth tone, falling)
to see somebody off, to accompany; to deliver, to send; to give as a present
Character breakdown
Ideographic description
⿺辶关The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 辶meaning partno entry yetThe walking radical: somebody goes along with the thing or the person being sent.
- 关shape partThe modern shape writes 关 here, but the element in the older character is 灷 — two hands holding something up to be handed over.
Mnemonic
The walking radical under something being held up in two hands. The word is not "to send" in the postal sense — that is 寄 — but going with someone or something: 送朋友到车站 to see a friend off at the station, 送孩子上学 to take the children to school, 送外卖 to deliver a takeaway. And 送 is the verb for giving a gift: 我送你一本书.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
Words containing 送
Radical 辵 — other characters
- 过過guò (fourth tone, falling) guo (neutral tone)to cross, to pass by, to go through; to spend (time); to exceed; (unstressed guo) the experiential aspect marker
- 还還hái (second tone, rising) huán (second tone, rising)(huán) to give back, to return something, to repay; (hái) still, yet; even more; also, in addition
- 进進jìn (fourth tone, falling)to enter, to go in, to come in; to advance, to make progress; to take in, to import