性 (xìng)
nature / character / gender
How 性 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Traditional
- 性
- Simplified
- 性 (unchanged)
Components
- 忄 heart
- 生 life
Common words using 性
- 人性 rénxìng
- human nature; humanity; human
- 任性 rènxìng
- willful; headstrong; uninhibited
- 個性 gèxìng
- individuality; personality
- 女性 nǚxìng
- woman; the female sex
- 彈性 tánxìng
- flexibility; elasticity
- 性感 xìnggǎn
- sex appeal; eroticism; sexuality
- 性格 xìnggé
- nature; disposition; temperament
- 感性 gǎnxìng
- perception; perceptual; sensibility
- 理性 lǐxìng
- reason; rationality; rational
- 男性 nánxìng
- the male sex; a male
- 異性 yìxìng
- the opposite sex; of the opposite sex; heterosexual
- 習慣性 xíguànxìng
- customary
性 in a sentence
他的個性很開朗，很容易交朋友。
Tā de gèxìng hěn kāilǎng, hěn róngyì jiāo péngyǒu.
“His personality is very cheerful, and he makes friends easily.”
How common is 性?
性 is the 122nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 45.6% of all running text.
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