qíng clear sky; sunny

Made up of [ sun; day radical 72, qīng green; blue radical 174]
Similar looking characters : qǐng (please)
Made with 12 strokes.
The sun radical suggests it is to do with the sky, the qing -green component as well as giving the phonetic also suggests the color as qing originally described both blue and green

Related characters


Also uses component: bái (bright) céng (once) chāng (prosperous) chūn (spring) dàn (dawn) hūn (to marry) jiàn (gap) jiān (between) jǐng (bright) jiù (old) míng (bright) (do not) (general) shì (is) shí (time) shǔ (heat) wǎn (evening) xiāng (fragrant) xīng (star) yáng (yang) (easy) yīn (sound) yǐng (picture) zǎo (early) zhào (according to) zhě (in process of) zhuō (table) zuì (most) zuó (previous)
Also uses qīng component: jīng (refined) jīng (eye) qǐng (please) qíng (affection) qīng (clear)

Sounds same

qíng (affection)

Different tone

qīng (green) qīng (clear) qǐng (please) qìng (celebrate)

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Pronunciation

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Proverbs

雨过天晴 yǔ guò tiān qíng Things are improving. Hope for the future