情
(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #146 U+60C5
How 情 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
忄 (semantic, “heart”) + 青 (phonetic, qīng)
How to remember it
feelings · Heisig RSH #1211
state of mind + telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 青
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 青 (qīng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound component | qīng | nature's color; blue, green, black; young |
| 清 | qīng | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful |
| 精 | jīng | essence, germ, spirit |
| 请 | qǐng | to ask, to request; to invite; please |
| 氰 | qíng | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile |
| 睛 | jīng | eyeball; pupil |
| 猜 | cāi | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel |
| 晴 | qíng | clear weather, fine weather |
| 蜻 | qīng | dragonfly |
| 靓 | liàng | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up |
| 菁 | jīng | turnip; a flower of the leek family |
| 腈 | jīng | acrylic |
| 箐 | qìng | to draw a bamboo bow |
| 鲭 | qīng | mackerel |
| 鼱 | jīng | shrew |
| 圊 | qīng | restroom |
Words containing 情
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有人情 | yǒu rén qíng | humane |
| 有情人 | yǒu qíng rén | lovers |
| 无情无义 | wú qíng wú yì | completely lacking any feeling or sense of justice (idiom); cold and ruthless |
| 水火无情 | shuǐ huǒ wú qíng | fire and flood have no mercy (idiom) |
| 地下情 | dì xià qíng | secret love affair |
| 人情 | rén qíng | human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn |
| 情人 | qíng rén | lover; sweetheart |
| 有情有义 | yǒu qíng yǒu yì | affectionate and true; loyal (idiom) |
| 国情 | guó qíng | the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country; current state of a country |
| 情头 | qíng tóu | "lovers' avatar" – avatar that matches the avatar of a significant other (e.g. two halves … |
| 心情 | xīn qíng | mood; frame of mind |
| 情儿 | qíng r | (dialect) mistress; paramour |
| 无情 | wú qíng | pitiless; ruthless; merciless; heartless |
| 性情 | xìng qíng | nature; temperament |
| 动情 | dòng qíng | to get excited; passionate; aroused to passion; to fall in love; on heat (of animals) |
| 有情 | yǒu qíng | to be in love; sentient beings (Buddhism) |
| 行情 | háng qíng | market price; quotation of market price; the current market situation |
| 自作多情 | zì zuò duō qíng | to imagine that one's love is reciprocated; to shower affection on an uninterested party |
| 合情合理 | hé qíng hé lǐ | (idiom) reasonable; fair |
| 情分 | qíng fèn | mutual affection; friendship |