索性
suǒ xìng · HSK 7
simply
🤷 suǒ xìng sounds like so, sing! — fine, just do it, you might as well
索 (suǒ) also means to search or pull a rope; 性 (xìng) is nature or disposition. The compound carries the sense of giving in to the straightforward course: stop hesitating and simply go ahead.
性 — heart radical 忄 + 生 (life/birth)
性 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 忄 supplies the meaning, pointing to inner feelings or innate qualities, while 生 ('birth, life') gives the sound and hints at what one is born with. It originally meant 'inborn nature' and later extended to 'character,' 'gender,' and 'sex.'