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.

• 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

• 𬀪xiàn🔊

  to appear (of sun)

  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

• 晴qíng🔊

  clear

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 智zhì🔊

  (literary) wise; wisdom

  12 strokes

• 景jǐng🔊

  (bound form) scenery

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 㫺xī🔊

  old variant of 昔[xi1]

  12 strokes

• 晩wǎn🔊

  variant of 晚[wan3]

  12 strokes

• 晪tiǎn🔊

  (literary) bright

  12 strokes

• 晫zhuó🔊

  (literary) splendorous

  12 strokes

• 晬zuì🔊

  1st birthday of a child

  12 strokes

• 晰xī🔊

  clear

  12 strokes

• 晳xī🔊

  variant of 皙[xi1]

  12 strokes

• 晶jīng🔊

  crystal

  12 strokes

• 晷guǐ🔊

  sundial

  12 strokes

• 晿chēng🔊

  (used in names)

  12 strokes

• 暂zàn🔊

  temporary

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 暑shǔ🔊

  heat

  12 strokes

• 暗àn🔊

  (literary) to close (a door)

  HSK 4

  13 strokes

• 晕yūn🔊

  confused

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 暖nuǎn🔊

  warm

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 暍hè🔊

  hot

  13 strokes

• 暄xuān🔊

  genial and warm

  13 strokes

• 暆yí🔊

  (of the sun) declining

  13 strokes

• 暇xiá🔊

  leisure

  13 strokes

• 晖huī🔊

  sunshine

  13 strokes

• 暋mǐn🔊

  (literary) rude and unreasonable

  13 strokes

• 暌kuí🔊

  in opposition to

  13 strokes

• 𬀩wěi🔊

  the bright shining of the sun

  13 strokes

• 暒qíng🔊

  old variant of 晴[qing2]

  13 strokes

• 暔nán🔊

  name of a country

  13 strokes

• 暕jiǎn🔊

  bright (light)

  13 strokes

• 旸yáng🔊

  rising sun

  13 strokes