The example ideophonogram should really include the tone of each sound, and whether it can be used standalone or only with certain other characters in words. As

The example ideophonogram should really include the tone of each sound, and whether it can be used standalone or only with certain other characters in words. As a foreigner living in China these are the characters I know how to read, mainly from noticing the radical with one eye and the phonogram with the other: 青qing1 "blue/green" 清qing1 "clear" 晴qing2 "bright" 情qing2 "feeling", mainly used in other words, e.g. 情况qing2kuang4 "circumstances" 请qing3 "invite" 睛jing1, used in 眼睛yan3jing "eye" where tone becomes neutral (don't confuse with 眼镜yan3jing4 "glasses") Those 6, along with 精jing1 (in 精神jing1shen2 "spirit") and 静jing4 "calm", are really the only 8 common ideophonograms of 青 I come across. These other two I didn't know because they're used so infrequently: 鲭 qing1, only used in 鲭鱼qing1yu2 "mackerel" (the 鱼 radical repeats) 蜻 qing1, only used in 蜻蜓qing1ting2 "dragonfly" (and 蜻蛉qing1ling1 "damselfly") -- note the 虫 radical is used in each character