xìng gé
temperament
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他性格开朗，很受欢迎。
tā xìnggé kāilǎng, hěn shòu huānyíng.
He has an outgoing personality and is very popular.
她性格内向，不爱说话。
tā xìnggé nèixiàng, bù ài shuōhuà.
She has an introverted personality and doesn't like to talk much.
他的性格很古怪，让人捉摸不透。
tā de xìnggé hěn gǔguài, ràng rén zhuōmo bù tòu.
His personality is very strange and hard to understand.
The Chinese word 性格 (xìnggé) for "personality" is composed of two characters: 性 (xìng) and 格 (gé). The character 性 originally meant "inborn nature" or "temperament", and was often used in the context of traditional Chinese medicine to describe a person's physical and mental characteristics. The character 格 originally meant "pattern" or "framework", and was often used in the context of Confucian philosophy to describe a person's moral character or disposition. Over time, the two characters came to be combined to form the word 性格, which is now used to refer to a person's overall personality or character.
