称
Meaning
- to weigh
- to state
- to name
Example sentence
庆祝春节俗称过年。
Celebrating Spring Festival is commonly referred to as 'passing the year'.
The character 称
称 is 禾, grain, beside 尔: weighing out a crop, and then naming what has been weighed. 称为 is the frame — to call something something — 名称 is the name of a thing, and 称赞 is weighing a person favourably.