(xìng) - nature, quality, sex, -ness (suffix) in Mandarin
xìngTraditional: 性
Translation
nature, quality, sex, -ness (suffix)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound of 忄(the heart radical) with 生 (shēng, to be born, also phonetic), referring to one's inborn nature.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 忄(heart radical) + 生 (shēng, to be born, phonetic)
Stroke order
性
Examples
。
The importance of this issue is very high.
格温。
His nature is very gentle.
填。
Please fill in your sex.
材稳。
This material has very strong stability.
。
Safety is what we care about most.
性 (xìng) means nature or inborn quality, and also denotes sex or gender. As a productive suffix it forms abstract nouns like 重要性 (importance) and 可能性 (possibility), much like English -ness or -ity.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 性.
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