情谊
qíng yì · HSK 7
friendship
🤝 情谊 = 情 (affection) + 谊 (friendship bond)
情 carries warm feeling; 谊 is the bond between friends. Together they name the deep affection and loyalty that grows between companions. 谊 shares its 宜 sound with yì.
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.