轻
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light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 車 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 輕
- Common rank
- #661
- Unicode
- U+8F7B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 轻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文人相轻 | scholars tend to disparage one another (idiom) | |
| 重利轻义 | to value material gain over righteousness | |
| 重义轻利 | to value righteousness rather than material gain (idiom) | |
| 不知轻重 | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things; naive… | |
| 年轻有为 | young and promising | |
| 头重脚轻 | top-heavy; fig. unbalance in organization or political structure | |
| 年轻人 | young people; youngster | |
| 小年轻 | (coll.) young person; youngster | |
| 年轻化 | to make more youthful; to promote younger staff | |
| 重文轻武 | to value letters and belittle arms (idiom); to stress civil matters and neglect the milita… | |
| 礼轻人意重 | slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thou… | |
| 无足轻重 | insignificant | |
| 轻工业 | light industry | |
| 轻质石油产品 | light petroleum product (i.e. gasoline and diesel oil) | |
| 礼轻情意重 | goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom);… | |
| 人微言轻 | (idiom) what lowly people think counts for little | |
| 轻言细语 | to speak softly | |
| 轻音乐 | light music | |
| 重量轻质 | to value quantity over quality | |
| 轻质石油 | light petroleum (product); gasoline and diesel oil |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 工 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 工 sound part | labor, work; laborer, worker | |
| 红 | red, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular | |
| 空 | hollow, empty, deserted, bare | |
| 江 | large river; the Yangtze; surname | |
| 经 | the classics; to experience, to undergo | |
| 径 | path, diameter; straight, direct | |
| 攻 | to accuse; to assault; to criticize | |
| 项 | neck, nape; item; a term in an equation | |
| 氢 | ammonia | |
| 贡 | to offer, to contribute; tribute, gifts | |
| 虹 | rainbow | |
| 缸 | earthen jug, crock, cistern | |
| 肛 | anus | |
| 巩 | to bind, to guard, to strengthen; firm, secure, strong | |
| 汞 | mercury (element) | |
| 邛 | mound; in distress | |
| 豇 | kidney bean; black-eyed pea | |
| 仝 | together, same; surname | |
| 巠 | underground river; flowing water |