青
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green; blue; black; youth; young (of people)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 靑 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 青
- Common rank
- #250
- Unicode
- U+9752
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 青 is formed
How to remember it
blue or green · Heisig RSH #1208
grow up + moon — as a component also called: telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 青
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大青山 | Daqing Mountain in Hohhot 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 青山区 | Qingshan, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei; Qingshan, a district of … | |
| 青天白日 | (idiom) in broad daylight; in the middle of the day; KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue bac… | |
| 海青天 | popular nickname of Hai Rui 海瑞[Hai3 Rui4] (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty… | |
| 西青区 | Xiqing suburban district of Tianjin municipality 天津市[Tian1 jin1 shi4] | |
| 高青县 | Gaoqing, a county in Zibo City 淄博市[Zi1 bo2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 青白江区 | Qingbaijiang, a district of Chengdu City 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 青城山 | Mount Qingcheng | |
| 中国青年报 | China Youth Daily | |
| 巴青县 | Baqên, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市[Na4 qu3 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 青神县 | Qingshen, a county in Meishan City 眉山市[Mei2 shan1 Shi4], Sichuan | |
| 天青石 | lapis lazuli | |
| 青阳县 | Qingyang, a county in Chizhou City 池州市[Chi2 zhou1 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 青金石 | lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family) | |
| 青河县 | Qinggil, a county in Altay Prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 青龙县 | see 青龍滿族自治縣|青龙满族自治县[Qing1 long2 Man3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 青县 | Qing County or Qingxian, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 青山 | see 青山區|青山区[Qing1 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 青山 | green hills; (the good) life | |
| 海东青 | (bird species of China) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) |
Sound family
These characters use 青 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound part | nature's color; blue, green, black; young | |
| 情 | emotion, feeling, sentiment | |
| 清 | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful | |
| 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 |