Memory phrase for the Kanji: 倾
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倾 |
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Meaning
| incline, to collapse, to overturn, to tend
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Pronunciation |
qīng |
Explanation |
Left: person 亻, right: short while ago, area size qǐng 顷 (sitting person 匕, page, (fore)head 页/頁 (=head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Better left: change 化 |
Mnemonic |
If a person 亻turns to a sitting 匕 person, it's in the head, that is inclining.
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Radicals
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化
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change | |
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亻
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person | This radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart. - This radical has several varation, i.e. a lying person  , a sitting 匕 person. |
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匕
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spoon, ladle | In the explanations this radical is also used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫) |
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頁
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head, leader | Picture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 倾向 |
qīng xiàng |
trend; tendency; orientation |
| 倾斜 |
qīng xié |
to incline; to lean; to slant; to slope; to tilt |
| 倾泻 |
qīng xiè |
to pour down in torrents |
| 拭目倾耳 |
shì mù qīng ěr |
to watch and listen attentively |
| 拭目倾耳 |
shì mù qīng ěr |
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