HSK 2 · Adjectives

晴 qíng “sunny” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 晴 means

  1. sunny, clear
  2. fine (weather)

How to say 晴

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale晴qíng2nd tone, rising

晴 in a sentence

  1. 明天是晴天。

    Míngtiān shì qíngtiān.

    It’ll be sunny tomorrow.

    Sentence #10520473 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 今天看上去是个晴天。

    Jīntiān kànshangqu shì ge qíngtiān.

    It looks like a sunny day today.

    Sentence #6452056 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 下午大概天转晴。

    Xiàwǔ dàgài tiān zhuǎn qíng.

    It’ll probably clear up in the afternoon.

    Sentence #385110 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晴 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晴 (qíng) with each of its parts in a different colour
晴qíngclear
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 青blue-green · qīngSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 青 (qīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with qíng.

How to write 晴

晴 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晴 (qíng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 晴 (qíng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晴

Words with 晴

晴朗qínglǎng · sunny

More words: Adjectives

错cuò · wrong真zhēn · true非常fēicháng · extremely最zuì · most阴yīn · cloudy好吃hǎochī · delicious白色báisè · white不错bùcuò · not bad

FAQs

晴 (qíng) means “sunny, clear” or “fine (weather)”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it qíng: qíng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 晴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晴 from the suggestions. Typing qing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晴 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.