轻
light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #661 U+8F7B
How 轻 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
车 (semantic, “cart”) + 工 (phonetic, gōng)
How to remember it
lightweight · Heisig RSH #1095
车 car + spool
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 工
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 工 (gōng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 工 sound component | gōng | labor, work; laborer, worker |
| 红 | hóng | red, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular |
| 空 | kōng | hollow, empty, deserted, bare |
| 江 | jiāng | large river; the Yangtze; surname |
| 经 | jīng | the classics; to experience, to undergo |
| 径 | jìng | path, diameter; straight, direct |
| 攻 | gōng | to accuse; to assault; to criticize |
| 项 | xiàng | neck, nape; item; a term in an equation |
| 氢 | qīng | ammonia |
| 贡 | gòng | to offer, to contribute; tribute, gifts |
| 虹 | hóng | rainbow |
| 缸 | gāng | earthen jug, crock, cistern |
| 肛 | gāng | anus |
| 巩 | gǒng | to bind, to guard, to strengthen; firm, secure, strong |
| 汞 | gǒng | mercury (element) |
| 邛 | qióng | mound; in distress |
| 豇 | jiāng | kidney bean; black-eyed pea |
| 仝 | tóng | together, same; surname |
| 巠 | jīng | underground river; flowing water |
Words containing 轻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文人相轻 | wén rén xiāng qīng | scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom) |
| 重利轻义 | zhòng lì qīng yì | to value material gain over righteousness |
| 重义轻利 | zhòng yì qīng lì | to value righteousness rather than material gain (idiom) |
| 不知轻重 | bù zhī qīng zhòng | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things; naive… |
| 年轻有为 | nián qīng yǒu wéi | young and promising |
| 头重脚轻 | tóu zhòng jiǎo qīng | top-heavy; fig. unbalance in organization or political structure |
| 年轻人 | nián qīng rén | young people; youngster |
| 小年轻 | xiǎo nián qīng | (coll.) young person; youngster |
| 年轻化 | nián qīng huà | to make more youthful; to promote younger staff |
| 重文轻武 | zhòng wén qīng wǔ | to value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the milita… |
| 礼轻人意重 | lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng | slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thou… |
| 无足轻重 | wú zú qīng zhòng | insignificant |
| 轻工业 | qīng gōng yè | light industry |
| 轻质石油产品 | qīng zhì shí yóu chǎn pǐn | light petroleum product (i.e. gasoline and diesel oil) |
| 礼轻情意重 | lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng | goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom);… |
| 人微言轻 | rén wēi yán qīng | (idiom) what lowly people think counts for little |
| 轻言细语 | qīng yán xì yǔ | to speak softly |
| 轻音乐 | qīng yīn yuè | light music |
| 重量轻质 | zhòng liàng qīng zhì | to value quantity over quality |
| 轻质石油 | qīng zhì shí yóu | light petroleum (product); gasoline and diesel oil |