IDENTITY
轻qīnglight (weight); gentle
HSK 3Top 400
CORE MEANING
light (weight); gentle
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.lightHSK3
- 2.youngHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 车vehicle radical (chē)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰车𢀖
- cart
- gives the sound qīng (historical)
USAGE
Common words
年轻niánqīngyoung
轻松qīngsōngrelaxed
轻视qīngshìto look down on
Graded examples
这个箱子很轻。Zhège xiāngzi hěn qīng.HSK3
This box is very light.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A light cart (车) — easy to move, not heavy. (From 輕.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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