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