lean, incline, tilt, trend, wane, sink, ruin, bias
傾 centers on a shift away from upright or neutral: physically leaning or tilting, and figuratively a trend, bias, or decline toward ruin.
傾 combines 亻 (person) with 頃, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of tilting or inclining. The exact historical development of 頃 is uncertain, but the compound suggests a person leaning.
A person 亻 beside 頃, which looks like a head tilted to one side. Picture someone leaning their head, causing their whole body to incline.
For ケイ, imagine a person leaning against a giant letter K: K -> ケイ, and the K tilts under their weight.
tendency; trend; inclination
to incline; to lean; to tip; to tilt; to slant; to bend; to list
to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to heel over; to be disposed to; to trend toward; to be prone to
inclination; slant; slope; bevel; list; dip; tilt; lean
slope; inclination; list
devoting oneself to; concentrating on; being an ardent admirer of; having great esteem for
to tilt (esp. head); to lean; to incline; to slant
leaning to the right
slope; sloping ground; sloping lot
listening closely
devoting (oneself) to; concentrating (one's efforts) on
leaning to the left
beauty; siren
ionization tendency; ionisation tendency
inflationary trend; inflationary tendency
deflationary trend
data trend; data tendency
woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale
upward tendency; rising trend
to lean (esp. of a ripe ear of rice); to incline; to slant; to tilt