qíng

clear weather

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Definitions

 

qíng

clear weather, fine weather; clear; fine (weather)

Most common words with 晴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

clear

晴朗

sunny and cloudless

晴天

clear sky

放晴

(of weather) to clear up

晴天霹雳

thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-tsʰeŋ

dzjeng

qíng

to clear (of weather)


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 2.8992% of movies

2745th most common character in movies

1968th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6674


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