漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
傾: lean, incline
Also: tilt, trend, wane, sink, ruin, bias
JLPT N213 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 頃 gives the sound
13 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
ケイkei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 傾向けいこうtendency, trend, inclination
- 傾度けいどdegree of inclination
- 傾斜するけいしゃするincline, slant, slope
- 右傾するうけいするlean to the (political) right
- 左傾するさけいするleaning the (political) left
かたむくkatamuku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 傾くかたむくlean, tip, tilt, slant [v.i.]
- 傾きかたむきslope, inclination
かたむけるkatamukeru · kun'yomi
- 傾けるかたむけるlean, tip, tilt, slant [v.t.]
かしげるkashigeru · kun'yomi
- 傾げるかしげるlean, tip, tilt, slant [v.t.]
- 傾ぐかしぐlean, tip, tilt, slant [v.i.]
Also read かたぶく, かたげる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side傾 lean · 亻 + 頃
vs頓 suddenly · 屯 + 頁In ChineseSimplified 倾 · traditional, as in Japanese · qīng
Japan keeps the traditional form 傾; mainland China simplifies it to 倾.
- Simplified
- 倾 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 傾 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qīng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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