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.

• 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