漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
晴: clear up
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
日 carries the meaning · 青 gives the sound
12 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
セイsei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 晴天せいてんfine weather
はれるhareru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 晴れるはれるbecome sunny
-ばれ-bare · kun'yomi
- 五月晴れさつきばれearly summer fine weather
- 素晴らしいすばらしいwonderful
- 気晴らしきばらしrecreation
はらすharasu · kun'yomi
- 晴らすはらすclear away
Also read はれ, はれ-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)日 sun (meaning) + 青 (sound)
Written as 夝 in Shuowen and as 星 in the Classic of Poetry.
Source: Wiktionary, 晴 (rev. 92200676), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Sun (日) + blue/green/fresh (青). The weather is "sunny" and the sky is "fresh blue" because the sun is shining brightly without a cloud.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
晴 takes the 青 family's reading, セイ (sei).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side晴 clear up · 日
vs情 feelings · 忄In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qíng
Same form: 晴 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 晴 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 晴 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qíng 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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