恩情

ēn qíng · HSK 7

kindness

🤲💛 ēn (grace) + qíng (feeling) = the feeling of grace someone showed you

恩 means grace or favor, qíng means emotion or feeling. Together they describe the warm debt of gratitude you carry when someone has been deeply kind to you — a lasting emotional bond born from generosity.

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.

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