sun

Origin & mnemonic

This radical is a pictograph of the sun, drawn as a circle or square with a dot or point in the center. In oracle-bone script and seal script, this shape was simplified to a plain square frame as seen in modern form.

Mnemonic: The simple square frame ⽇ resembles the sun encircled or enclosed, easy to remember as it directly depicts the sun's image.

• 昝Zǎn🔊

  surname Zan

  9 strokes

• 昞bǐng🔊

  variant of 炳[bing3]

  9 strokes

• 昡xuàn🔊

  long day

  9 strokes

• 昣zhěn🔊

  (literary) bright

  9 strokes

• 昤līng🔊

  sunshine

  9 strokes

• 昦hào🔊

  variant of 昊[hao4]

  9 strokes

• 昨zuó🔊

  yesterday

  9 strokes

• 昪biàn🔊

  (literary) (of sunlight) bright

  9 strokes

• 昫xù🔊

  variant of 煦[xu4]

  9 strokes

• 昭zhāo🔊

  bright

  9 strokes

• 昱yù🔊

  bright light

  9 strokes

• 昳dié🔊

  the declining sun in the west

  9 strokes

• 昴mǎo🔊

  the Pleiades

  9 strokes

• 昶chǎng🔊

  (of the day) long

  9 strokes

• 昺bǐng🔊

  bright

  9 strokes

• 昻áng🔊

  variant of 昂[ang2]

  9 strokes

• 昽lóng🔊

  used in 曚曨|曚昽[meng2 long2]

  9 strokes

• 晕yūn🔊

  confused

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 晒shài🔊

  variant of 曬|晒[shai4]

  HSK 4

  10 strokes

• 晃huǎng🔊

  variant of 晃[huang3]

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 晟Chéng🔊

  surname Cheng

  10 strokes

• 晋jìn🔊

  to move forward

  10 strokes

• 晓xiǎo🔊

  dawn

  10 strokes

• 晁Cháo🔊

  surname Chao

  10 strokes

• 晄huǎng🔊

  old variant of 晃[huang3]

  10 strokes

• 晅xuān🔊

  light of the sun

  10 strokes

• 晌shǎng🔊

  part of the day

  10 strokes

• 晏yàn🔊

  late

  10 strokes

• 晑xiǎng🔊

  bright

  10 strokes

• 晔yè🔊

  bright light

  10 strokes

• 晖huī🔊

  sunshine

  10 strokes

• 晚wǎn🔊

  evening

  HSK 1

  11 strokes

• 曼màn🔊

  handsome

  11 strokes

• 晦huì🔊

  (bound form) last day of a lunar month

  11 strokes

• 晨chén🔊

  morning

  11 strokes

• 㫰làng🔊

  (dialect) to dry (sth) in the sun; to dry (sth) in the air

  11 strokes

• 勗xù🔊

  exhort

  11 strokes

• 晗hán🔊

  before daybreak

  11 strokes

• 晙jùn🔊

  (literary) early morning

  11 strokes

• 晜kūn🔊

  descendant

  11 strokes

• 昼zhòu🔊

  daytime

  11 strokes

• 晞xī🔊

  dawn

  11 strokes

• 晡bū🔊

  3-5 p.m.

  11 strokes

• 晢zhé🔊

  bright

  11 strokes

• 晤wù🔊

  to meet (socially)

  11 strokes

• 晥Wǎn🔊

  old variant of 皖[Wan3]

  11 strokes

• 普pǔ🔊

  general

  12 strokes

• 晾liàng🔊

  to dry in the air

  12 strokes