傾 - TILT Your Head

Readings & Meanings:

かたむ（く）

ケイ

incline, lean

Common Usage:

傾く

首を傾げる

傾倒

傾向

Examples:

ピサの斜塔はどうして傾いているのだろう？

不思議がって首を傾げる。

60年代の若者たちの多くはビートルズの音楽に傾倒していた。

今年はストライプ柄が流行る傾向にあるようだ。

Translations:

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean forward?

I cock my head to the side in puzzlement at such wonders.

So many young people in the '60s admired/idolized the music of the Beatles.

It seems that this year's trend will be striped patterns.

Radical:

人 is our radical, on the left.

頃 is our phonetic. It's 頁(head) and a squished form of 化(transformation). It shows a head jerking up quickly.

Actually, 傾 replaced 頃 and took over the meaning of "tilt, incline."

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/indices/radindex.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/node/kanji/7.htm