友情
yoǔ qíng · HSK 7
feeling
🤝 友 friend + 情 feeling = friendly feelings, the warmth between friends
友 means friend (two hands joining in cooperation); 情 means feeling or emotion (the heart radical 忄plus a phonetic). Together: the feeling shared between friends, i.e. friendship.
情 — heart radical 忄 + 青 (qīng)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals that the meaning involves feelings or inner states, while 青 supplies the sound 'qing'. Originally referring to genuine feelings or emotion arising from the heart, 情 expanded to cover sentiment, affection, and circumstances or situations more broadly.