情
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion
- 2.(bound form) situation; condition
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Wiktionary
- 1.feeling; sentiment; emotion
- 2.love; affection (Classifier: 段; 份)
- 3.sexual desire
- 4.favours; feelings
- 5.reason
- 6.situation; circumstances
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, *dzeŋ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 青 (*tsʰˤeŋ). Its meaning "feeling" prompts Benedict (1976) to connect it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-niŋ (“heart; brain; mind”); while its other meaning "proper nature, situation" suggests cognacy to 生 (shēng, “to live, life”) (Boltz, 1976), though the initials of 情 (OC *dzeŋ) vs. 生 (OC *srêŋ) are difficult to reconcile (Schuessler, 2007) – not withstanding Zhengzhang (2003)'s reconstructions 情 (OC *zleŋ) vs. 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ). 情 (OC *dzeŋ) may be compared with 靜 (OC *dzeŋ;dzeŋh) and 靖 (OC *dzeŋʔ) (“still; settled; at peace”), as well as 清 (OC *tsʰeŋ) and 淨 (OC *dzeŋh;dzˤreŋ) (“clear; clean; unobscured”), perhaps reflecting a semantic field of clarity, settledness, and the manifestation of an actual or inherent state.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
請盡情地跳舞。
Please enjoy yourself at the dance.
情況要失控了。
We're losing control of the situation.
我沒想要情緒化。
I didn't mean to get emotional.
汤姆欠我们个情。
Tom owes us a favor.
他們談論了愛情。
They talked about love.
今天情況不太好。
Things aren't going well today
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Derived terms
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