Chinese Character Wiki
性

xìng

nature

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 生 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

生 sound component

生  Sound component

shēng

  

life

Evolution

性 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
性 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
性 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
性 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

性  

xìng

nature, character, sex; nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[gè]

Most common words with 性
Freq.
Word
Meaning

性

nature

女性

woman

性感

sex appeal

同性恋

homosexuality

个性

individuality

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*seŋ-s

sjengH

xìng

nature


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 85.1674% of movies

281st most common character in movies

122nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6027

Shuowen

“性，人之陽气性善者也。从心，生聲。”


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