Chinese

情感

/t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ kän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
emotion; feeling; affect
  • HSK 3

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  • characterChinese情 “feeling; emotion; sentiment; mood”
    • meaningChinese心 “heart (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 個／个 c; 粒 mn)”
    • soundChinese青 “blue-green ("grue"); blue (of sky, stone etc.); green (of grass, plants, mountains etc.)”
      • soundChinese生 “to live; to subsist; to exist”
        • ideaChinese屮 “new birth of plant”
        • ideaChinese一 “one”
      • soundChinese井 “well (a hole sunk into the ground) (Classifier: 口; 眼)”
  • characterChinese感 “to move (someone); to affect; to touch; to arouse”
    • soundChinese咸 “all; completely”

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