Meaning & readings
lean, incline, tilt, trend, wane, sink, ruin, bias
Origin
The character 傾 combines a person radical on the left (亻) with the component 頃 on the right, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The 頃 component doesn't contribute meaning but suggests how to pronounce the character. A person leaning or tilting their body is the core image—when someone leans, their whole posture changes and they're no longer upright. This physical action of the body bending or shifting to one side naturally extends to the broader meanings of inclining, tilting, or gradually waning over time.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 亻
- 頃
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #938 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+050BE