青
青 — cheong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 靑.
- Korean reading
- 푸를 청
- Romanization
- cheong
- English
- blue, green; young; Kangxi radical 174
- Mandarin
- qīng
- Japanese on'yomi
- セイ, ショウ, チン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あお あお- あお.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #589 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 靑 (174, 0 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 靑
- Unicode
- U+9752
Parts that make up 青
- 龶 획을 겹쳐 이룬 윗머리뜻 없이 글자의 윗머리를 이룬다
- 月 달 월 이지러진 달달과 때. 肉 이 왼쪽·아래에 올 때와 모양이 같다
How 青 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 青 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 生, 井.
Japanese words with 青
- 青あお blue; azure; green
- 青年せいねん youth; young man
- 青山せいざん lush mountain; green mountain; grave
- 青木あおき Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
- 青春せいしゅん youth; adolescence; springtime of life
- 青少年せいしょうねん young people (ages 12 to 25); youth; the younger generation
- 青空あおぞら blue sky
- 青葉あおば fresh leaves
- 青写真あおじゃしん blueprint; cyanotype; blueprint (for the future)
- 青果せいか fruits and vegetables; produce
- 青梅あおうめ unripe plum
- 青柳あおやぎ green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
Characters sharing the phonetic 靑
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “청”
Other hanja with radical 靑
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