qíng

feeling

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

情 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qíng

feeling, sentiment, emotion; feeling; emotion; passion; situation

Most common words with 情
Freq.
Word
Meaning

事情

affair

情况

circumstances

feeling

爱情

romance

心情

mood

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]eŋ

dzjeng

qíng

affections; response to circumstances


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.9588% of movies

123rd most common character in movies

120th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+60C5

Shuowen

“情,人之陰氣有欲者。从心,青聲。”


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