qīng

upset

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

頃 sound component

  Sound component

qǐngqīng

  

a measure of area equal to 100 畝 (mu) ~ 6.7 hectares

Evolution

傾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
傾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
傾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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qīng

upset, pour out, overflow; to overturn; to collapse; to lean; to tend; to incline; to pour out

Most common words with 傾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

倾向

trend

倾听

to listen attentively

to overturn

倾诉

to say everything (that is on one's mind)

倾斜

to incline

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷʰeŋ

khjwieng

qīng

incline (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.2146% of movies

1578th most common character in movies

1260th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+50BE

Shuowen

“傾,仄也。从人,从頃,頃亦聲。”


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