性
性 — seong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 성품 성
- Romanization
- seong
- English
- nature, character, sex
- Mandarin
- xìng
- Japanese on'yomi
- セイ, ショウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さが
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #104 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 心 (61, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6027
Parts that make up 性
How 性 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 性 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 心, 生.
Korean example words with 性
- 경성硬性 Korean gloss: 단단한 성질
- 극성劇性 Korean gloss: 극렬한 성질
- 솔성率性 Korean gloss: 타고난 성질
- 약성藥性 Korean gloss: 약재의 성질
- 원성原性 Korean gloss: 본디의 성질
- 유성油性 Korean gloss: 기름의 성질
- 품성稟性 Korean gloss: 타고난 성질
- 심성心性 Korean gloss: 타고난 마음씨
- 성향性向 Korean gloss: 성질에 따른 경향
- 소성素性 Korean gloss: 본디 타고난 성품
- 성별性別 Korean gloss: 남녀나 암수의 구별
- 점성粘性 Korean gloss: 차지고 끈끈한 성질
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 性
- 女性じょせい woman; female; feminine gender
- 男性だんせい man; male; masculine gender
- 可能性かのうせい possibility; chance; likelihood
- 性格せいかく character (of a person); personality; disposition
- 必要性ひつようせい necessity; need
- 個性こせい individuality; personality; quirk
- 活性かっせい activity; active
- 急性きゅうせい acute (illness)
- 放射性ほうしゃせい radioactive
- 酸性さんせい acidity; acidic
- 性能せいのう ability; performance; efficiency
- 感性かんせい sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
Other hanja read “성”
Other hanja with radical 心
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