倾
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to overturn; to collapse; to lean; to tend; to incline; to pour out
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 人 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 傾
- Common rank
- #1,197
- Unicode
- U+503E
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
incline · Heisig RSH #2082
人 person + 顷 100 Chinese acres
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 倾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一见倾心 | love at first sight | |
| 左倾机会主义 | (Marxist jargon) left opportunism; ultra-left deviation ignoring objective conditions and … | |
| 倾向性 | tendency; inclination; orientation | |
| 倾耳而听 | to listen attentively | |
| 不良倾向 | harmful trend | |
| 倾心 | to admire wholeheartedly; to fall in love with | |
| 倾家 | to ruin a family; to lose a fortune | |
| 倾动 | to admire | |
| 倾国倾城 | lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom); fig. (of a woman) devasta… | |
| 倾城倾国 | see 傾國傾城|倾国倾城[qing1 guo2 qing1 cheng2] | |
| 倾力 | to do one's utmost | |
| 倾耳细听 | to prick up one's ear and listen carefully | |
| 倾听者 | listener | |
| 倾城 | coming from everywhere; from all over the place; gorgeous (of woman); to ruin and overturn… | |
| 倾家荡产 | to lose a family fortune (idiom) | |
| 前倾 | to lean forward | |
| 倾角 | dip; angle of dip (inclination of a geological plane down from horizontal); tilt (inclinat… | |
| 倾向于 | to incline to; to prefer; to be prone to | |
| 反倾销 | anti-dumping | |
| 倾盆大雨 | (idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down |