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情

情

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

情 (radical 61 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心手一月 (PQMB), four-corner 95027, composition ⿰忄青)

References

  • KangXi: page 389, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 723, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2312, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+60C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 情

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猜 *sʰlɯː
輤 *sʰleːns
綪 *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ
倩 *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs
棈 *sʰleːns
蒨 *sʰeːns
篟 *sʰeːns
生 *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs
牲 *sreŋ
笙 *sreŋ
甥 *sreŋ
鉎 *sreŋ, *sleːŋ
珄 *sreŋ
鼪 *sreŋ, *sreŋs
猩 *sreŋ, *seːŋ
狌 *sreŋ
眚 *sreŋʔ
貹 *sreŋs
崝 *zreːŋ
精 *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs
菁 *ʔsleŋ
鶄 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
蜻 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
鼱 *ʔsleŋ
婧 *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ
箐 *ʔsleŋ
聙 *ʔsleŋ
旌 *ʔsleŋ
清 *sʰleŋ
圊 *sʰleŋ
請 *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊 *sʰleŋs
䝼 *zleŋs, *zleŋ
靚 *zleŋs
情 *zleŋ
晴 *zleŋ
夝 *zleŋ
靜 *zleŋʔ
靖 *zleŋʔ
睲 *seŋʔ, *seːŋs
惺 *seŋʔ, *seːŋ
性 *sleŋs
姓 *sleŋs
靗 *l̥ʰeŋs
鯖 *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ
青 *sʰleːŋ
靘 *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs
掅 *sʰleːŋs
胜 *sleːŋ
曐 *sleːŋ
星 *sleːŋ
鮏 *sleːŋ
腥 *seːŋ, *seːŋs
鯹 *seːŋ
醒 *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂 *seːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 情
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 疾盈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ziɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ziæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ziajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qíng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 情
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qíng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjeng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]eŋ/
English affections; response to circumstances

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 情
Reading # 1/1
No. 11348
Phonetic
component		 生
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 情
Old
Chinese		 /*zleŋ/

Definitions

情

  1. feeling; sentiment; emotion
    感情  ―  gǎnqíng  ―  feeling
    愛情 / 爱情  ―  àiqíng  ―  love
  2. love; affection
  3. friendship; close relationship
  4. reputation; face (as a social concept)
  5. situation; circumstances
  6. clearly; obviously

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

情

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Emotion, feeling, fact, pity.

Readings

Compounds

References: KG Henshall, A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters J Halpern (Ed), New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

Noun

情 ‎(hiragana じょう, romaji jō)

  1. feelings; emotion

Korean

Hanja

情 • ‎(jeong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 정 (revised: jeong, McCune-Reischauer: chŏng, Yale: ceng)
  • Name (hangeul): 뜻()
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

情 (tình, dềnh, tành, rình, tạnh)

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