The Chinese Radical: 青


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Meaning
blue, young    青

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to request, to ask, to invite, please (do sth)
qǐng
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: green/blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Words towards a young are often a request.  
HSK 2
passion, emotion, feeling, situation
qíng
Left: feeling 忄, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
The feeling of the youth is passion.  
HSK 2
eye, eyeball
jīng
Left: eye 目, right: young, green/blue 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
It is in the eye and can be green/blue: the eyeball.  
HSK 2
clear, fine (weather)
qíng
Left: day/sun 日, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Sunny and blue (sky) - It's sunny and the weather's cleared up.  
HSK 3
clear, pure, to clean up, purge
qīng
Left: water 氵, right: blue, young 青 (Growing plants /丰 appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Water that is blue (or young) is clear and pure.  
HSK 3
calm, quiet, not moving
jìng
Left: blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.), right: dispute/fight 争 (A bent person ⺈ with a stick 亅 in hand is looking for dispute)
A "young" dispute is still calm and quiet.  
HSK 4
vitality, energy, essence, sperm, elite
jīng
Left: rice 米, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
Rice that has been grown under the moon is full of vitality.  
HSK 4
to guess, assume, conjecture
cāi
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: green/blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
When a wild animal appears like a plant in the moonshine, one only can guess (what it is).  
HSK 5
green or blue, youth
qīng
Top: growing plant , below: moon 月
Growing plants appear in the light of the moon as green, blue and young.  
no HSK
quiet, peaceful, to make tranquil, to pacify
jìng
Left: to stand 立, right: green, blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
When something stands (still), like growing plants in the moonlight, it is quiet.  
no HSK
beautiful, lovely, pretty, winsome
qiàn
Left: person 亻, right: green/blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
A person in his youth is beautiful.  
no HSK
luxuriant, lush, leek flower
jīng
Top: plant 艹, bottom: green, blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 blue and young.)
A plant hat is green and young, is: luxuirant.  

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