清
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(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)
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- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 清
- Common rank
- #176
- Unicode
- U+6E05
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
pure · Heisig RSH #1213
水 water + telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 清
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 清水县 | Qingshui, a county in Tianshui City 天水市[Tian1 shui3 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 长清区 | Changqing, a district of Jinan City 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 清水河县 | Qingshuihe, a county in Hohhot City 呼和浩特市[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 数不清 | countless; innumerable | |
| 德清县 | Deqing, a county in Huzhou City 湖州市[Hu2 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 清新区 | Qingxin, a district of Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市[Qing1 yuan3 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 不清 | unclear | |
| 清城区 | Qingcheng, a district of Qingyuan City 清遠市|清远市[Qing1 yuan3 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 大清 | Great Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | |
| 清人 | Qing dynasty person | |
| 门儿清 | (coll.) to know something inside out | |
| 一清二白 | perfectly clean; blameless; unimpeachable (idiom) | |
| 水清无鱼 | lit. water that is too clean holds no fish (idiom); fig. one who is too severe has no frie… | |
| 清水 | see 清水縣|清水县[Qing1 shui3 Xian4]; Shimizu (Japanese surname and place name) | |
| 清水 | fresh water; drinking water; clear water | |
| 一清如水 | lit. as clear as water (idiom); fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible | |
| 小清新 | hipster | |
| 清河门区 | Qinghemen, a district of Fuxin City 阜新市[Fu4 xin1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 清一色 | (mahjong) flush; a complete hand where all tiles are of the same suit; (fig.) uniformly; e… | |
| 清流县 | Qingliu, a county in Sanming City 三明市[San1 ming2 Shi4], Fujian |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 青 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound part | nature's color; blue, green, black; young | |
| 情 | emotion, feeling, sentiment | |
| 精 | essence, germ, spirit | |
| 请 | to ask, to request; to invite; please | |
| 氰 | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile | |
| 睛 | eyeball; pupil | |
| 猜 | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel | |
| 晴 | clear weather, fine weather | |
| 蜻 | dragonfly | |
| 靓 | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up | |
| 菁 | turnip; a flower of the leek family | |
| 腈 | acrylic | |
| 箐 | to draw a bamboo bow | |
| 鲭 | mackerel | |
| 鼱 | shrew | |
| 圊 | restroom |