qíng
feeling
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 青 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
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