情人
qíngrén · HSK 7
inamorato
💑 情人 = 情 feeling/love + 人 person = the person you love, a lover
情 carries the sense of affection or romantic feeling; 人 is person. Put them together and you get the person your feelings are aimed at: a sweetheart or lover.
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.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.