常常

Chinese

		always; ever; often always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant	always; ever; often always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant
simp. and trad. (常常)		常	常

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chángcháng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄔㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁴ soeng⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sòng-sòng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siông-siông / siâng-siâng
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶zan-zan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chángcháng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄔㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chángcháng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²-chʻang²
    • Yale: cháng-cháng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charngcharng
    • Palladius: чанчан (čančan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng⁴ soeng⁴
    • Yale: sèuhng sèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁴ soeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng⁴ sêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ²¹ sœːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sòng-sòng
    • Hakka Romanization System: songˇ songˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: song² song²
    • Sinological IPA: /soŋ¹¹ soŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông-siông
    • Tâi-lô: siông-siông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siongsioong
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ siɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ siɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻²² siɔŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâng-siâng
    • Tâi-lô: siâng-siâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siangsiaang
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siaŋ¹³⁻²² siaŋ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶zan-zan
    • MiniDict: zan^去 zan
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zan-zan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zã²² zã⁴⁴/

Adverb

常常

1. frequently; often

   這房子常常鬧鬼。 [MSC, trad.]
   这房子常常闹鬼。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè fángzi chángcháng nàoguǐ. [Pinyin]

   This house is haunted.

   • 我在蒙自住過五個月，我的家也在那裡住過兩個月。我現在常常想起這個地方，特別是在人事繁忙的時候。蒙自小得好，人少得好。 [MSC, trad.]
     我在蒙自住过五个月，我的家也在那里住过两个月。我现在常常想起这个地方，特别是在人事繁忙的时候。蒙自小得好，人少得好。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 朱自清 (Zhu Ziqing), 《蒙自雜記》

     Wǒ zài Méngzì zhù guò wǔ ge yuè, wǒ de jiā yě zài nàlǐ zhù guò liǎng ge yuè. Wǒ xiànzài chángcháng xiǎngqǐ zhè ge dìfang, tèbié shì zài rénshì fánmáng de shíhou. Méngzì xiǎo de hǎo, rén shǎo de hǎo. [Pinyin]

     I lived in Mengzi for five months, and my family two months. I often think of the place now, especially when my social life is busy. Mengzi is good because it's small and sparsely populated.

Synonyms

• 動輒／动辄 (dòngzhé) (literary)
• 常時／常时 (chángshí)
• 往往 (wǎngwǎng)
• 慣／惯 (guàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 時常／时常 (shícháng)
• 時時／时时 (shíshí)
• 每每 (měiměi)
• 終古／终古 (zhōnggǔ) (literary)
• 經常／经常 (jīngcháng)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 常常 (“often; frequently”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		經常, 時常, 常常, 時時, 往往, 每每
Mandarin	Beijing	常
	Taiwan	常常
	Harbin	時不見兒, 時不當, 時不當兒, 時不常, 時不常兒, 時不時
	Jinan	常常, 常, 時常
	Xi'an	常常, 常, 時常
	Wuhan	帶常, 時常
	Chengdu	時常, 常常, 隨時, 時不時
	Yangzhou	常
	Hefei	常
	Singapore	常常
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時, 時不時
	Hong Kong	成日, 經常, 時時, 好多時, 好多時候, 周時, 周不時
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	經常
	Yangjiang	周時
Gan	Nanchang	千常, 時常
Hakka	Meixian	輒常, 長時, 時常, 時不時
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時
	Hong Kong	長日
Huizhou	Jixi	三不時, 時不時
Jin	Taiyuan	常常, 時常, 時不時
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	稠稠, 稠, 盡稠
Southern Min	Xiamen	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Quanzhou	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時
	Zhangzhou	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Tainan	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 捷捷, 沓沓, 常在, 往往
	Manila (Hokkien)	定定, 常常, 四常, 不時
	Chaozhou	長時, 惦惦
	Shantou	經常, 時常, 時時, 惦惦
	Bangkok (Teochew)	惦惦
	Leizhou	長世, 長常
Wu	Shanghai	常樁, 常常, 經常
	Shanghai (Chongming)	千常
	Suzhou	時常, 常時, 常樁
	Ningbo	老老, 老長 rare, 長常 rare, 長時 rare
	Wenzhou	清清, 常期
Xiang	Changsha	練常, 打常, 扯常, 扯常子, 時不時
	Shuangfeng	練常, 常常

Antonyms

• 偶而 (ǒu'ér)
• 偶爾／偶尔 (ǒu'ěr)

Further reading

• “Entry #7232”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.