# 声 — Voice

Frequency rank 178 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 選 (Choose), less common than 情 (Feeling).

- On’yomi: せい、しょう
- Kun’yomi: こえ
- Radical: 士 Scholar (Kangxi 33)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The samurai kicks the stool out from under the scholar and catches him by the throat on the way down, squeezing until forty years of lecture leaves him as one cracked note.

In words:

- 声 こえ — voice
- 声明 せいめい — declaration;statement;proclamation
- 歓声 かんせい — cheer;shout of joy

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