qīng
upset
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 頃 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 傾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
trend | ||
to listen attentively | ||
to overturn | ||
to say everything (that is on one's mind) | ||
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。” |
Sources
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