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晴

qíng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

晴 (qíng) means "clear (weather)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 晴 means

1. clear
2. fine (weather)

Example sentences

• 晴天霹雳。
  Qíngtiānpīlì.
  It was like a bolt out of the blue.
• 雨过天晴。
  Yǔguòtiānqíng.
  After rain comes fair weather.
• 有望会变晴。
  Yǒuwàng huì biàn qíng.
  The weather promises to clear up.
• 天空很晴朗。
  The skies are clear.
• 明天是晴天。
  Tomorrow will be a fine day.
• 下午大概天转晴。
  The sky will probably turn clear in the afternoon.

Words starting with 晴

• 晴朗qíng lǎngsunny and cloudless
• 晴天qíng tiānclear sky; sunny day
• 晴空qíng kōngclear sky; cloudless sky
• 晴天霹雳qíng tiān pī lìlit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue
• 晴空万里qíng kōng wàn lǐa clear and boundless sky
• 晴好qíng hǎobright and sunny weather
• 晴雨qíng yǔrain or shine
• 晴隆县Qíng lóng XiànQinglong, a county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州
• 晴雨表qíng yǔ biǎo(lit. and fig.) barometer
• 晴天娃娃qíng tiān wá wateru teru bōzu (traditional Japanese doll hung outside windows in hope of sunny weather)
• 晴时多云qíng shí duō yúnmostly sunny; mostly clear (meteorology)
• 晴隆Qíng lóngsee 晴隆县

Words containing 晴

• 放晴fàng qíng(of weather) to clear up
• 雨过天晴yǔ guò tiān qíngsky clears after rain; new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)…
• 诈晴zhà qíngto clear up (of weather after rain)
• 开晴kāi qíngto brighten up
• 崭晴zhǎn qíngclear weather

Characters built on 青

These share the phonetic component 青 (qīng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 请qǐngto ask; to invite; please (do sth)
• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 清qīng(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 静jìngstill; calm; quiet
• 睛jīngeye; eyeball
• 婧jìng(literary) (of a woman) slender; delicate; (literary) (of a woman) talented
• 靖jìng(bound form) peaceful; (bound form) to pacify; to suppress

Characters that look like 晴

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 睛jīngeye; eyeball
• 暗àndark; to turn dark; secret; hidden
• 睹dǔto observe; to see
• 睫jiéeyelashes
• 靖jìng(bound form) peaceful; (bound form) to pacify; to suppress
• 绮qǐbeautiful; open-work silk

Sounds the same

Read qíng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 情(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 擎to raise; to hold up; to lift up
• 氰cyanogen (CN)2; ethanedinitrile; Taiwan pr. qīng
• 黥to tattoo criminals on the face or forehead
• 勍violent; strong
• 檠instrument for straightening bows
• 殑swoon
• 㯳variant of 檠
• 暒old variant of 晴

Where 晴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health and Weather (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 24 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qíng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.