性
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nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 心 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 性
- Common rank
- #26
- Unicode
- U+6027
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
sex · Heisig RSH #1221
state of mind + cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 性
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 性子 | temper | |
| 人性 | human nature; humanity; human; the totality of human attributes | |
| 地区性 | regional; local | |
| 水性 | swimming ability; characteristics of a body of water (depth, currents etc); aqueous; water… | |
| 中性 | neutral | |
| 性学 | sexology | |
| 心性 | one's nature; temperament | |
| 生性 | natural disposition | |
| 人性化 | (of a system or product etc) adapted to human needs; people-oriented; user-friendly | |
| 性地 | innate quality; natural disposition | |
| 无性 | sexless; asexual (reproduction) | |
| 天性 | nature; innate tendency | |
| 化学性 | chemical | |
| 机动性 | flexibility | |
| 性行 | sexual activity | |
| 手性 | chiral; chirality (chemistry) | |
| 生物性 | biological | |
| 体性 | disposition | |
| 生理性 | physiological | |
| 动物性 | animacy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 生 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生 sound part | life, lifetime; birth; growth | |
| 星 | star, planet; a point of light | |
| 胜 | victory; to excel, to truimph | |
| 姓 | name, family name, surname; clan, people | |
| 牲 | sacrificial animal; domestic animal | |
| 笙 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 甥 | niece, nephew; sister's child | |
| 旌 | to signal; a flag adorned with feathers | |
| 眚 | cataract; fault, error, crime |