輕

• Physical Weight & Kinetics: Lack of weight. Often implies agility or speed (e.g., nimble movements or light cavalry).
• Effort & Rigor: Easy or simple. This may be neutral (absence of difficulty) or pejorative (shallow, superficial, or lacking necessary rigor), particularly regarding governance or ritual.
• Value & Character: Triviality or insignificance. When applied to a person, it denotes frivolity or rashness; when applied to ideas or promises, it denotes something disregarded.
• Sensory/Manner: Gentle, soft, or subtle (e.g., a light touch, breeze, or sound).
• Technical: In medical or alchemical contexts, refers to the removal of heaviness, such as edema or lethargy.

• Adjective: Modifying weight, difficulty, or importance.
• Adverb: Describing an action performed gently, softly, or quickly.
• Verb: To reduce a physical burden; to underestimate or treat with contempt.

• 輕 vs. 單: Both may be translated as "simple," but 輕 implies a lack of weight/burden, while 單 implies a lack of complexity/plurality.
• Semantic Trajectory: The glyph moves from the physical (lack of weight) → kinetics (ease of movement) → effort (lack of difficulty) → value (lack of seriousness or importance).

// Tang-period reading: //kiɛng.

• Simplified variant: U+8F7B.