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倾

傾
qīng
verb #6,777

Meanings

  1. 1 to lean; to tilt
  2. 2 to collapse; to topple
  3. 3 to pour out

Examples

倾听别人说话。
Qīngtīng biérén shuōhuà.
Listen attentively to others.
倾向于同意。
Qīngxiàng yú tóngyì.
Tend to agree.

Tips

usage
倾听 = to listen attentively, 倾向 = tendency/to tend to.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person (left-side form of 人)
Person radical on the left — the indexing semantic. The original 倾 meant a person leaning or tilting; from a tilted body came the broader meanings 'lean, incline, pour out, tend toward'. The 亻 anchors 倾 in the human-action family alongside 倒 (fall over), 偏 (slanted), 侧 (sideways) — all body-position verbs.
phonetic
顷 qǐng
short time; tilt of the head (here phonetic)
Right component supplies the sound: qǐng → qīng, just a tone shift. 顷 itself shows 匕 (a person bent) over 页 (head) — a 'tilted head' picture, which already carried the lean-meaning before 亻 was added to 倾. The two characters share the lean-of-the-body image; 倾 makes the whole-body version explicit.

Stroke Order

倾 qīng