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.

• 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

• 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

• 暋mǐn🔊

  (literary) rude and unreasonable

  13 strokes

• 暌kuí🔊

  in opposition to

  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

• 暮mù🔊

  evening

  14 strokes

• 暨jì🔊

  (literary) and; as well as

  14 strokes

• 㬎xiǎn🔊

  old variant of 顯|显[xian3]

  14 strokes

• 暜pǔ🔊

  old variant of 普[pu3]

  14 strokes

• 暝míng🔊

  dark

  14 strokes

• 暞jiǎo🔊

  old variant of 曒[jiao3]

  14 strokes

• 暠gǎo🔊

  bright

  14 strokes

• 暡wěng🔊

  used in 暡曚[weng3 meng2]

  14 strokes

• 暧ài🔊

  (of daylight) dim

  14 strokes

• 向xiàng🔊

  towards

  HSK 2

  15 strokes

• 暴bào🔊

  sudden

  15 strokes

• 暪mèn🔊

  dark

  15 strokes

• 暲zhāng🔊

  bright

  15 strokes

• 暵hàn🔊

  dry

  15 strokes

• 暶xuán🔊

  (literary) bright

  15 strokes

• 暹xiān🔊

  sunrise

  15 strokes

• 暸liáo🔊

  bright

  16 strokes

• 暻jǐng🔊

  bright

  16 strokes

• 暾tūn🔊

  sun above the horizon

  16 strokes

• 曀yì🔊

  obscure

  16 strokes

• 历lì🔊

  to experience

  16 strokes

• 曈tóng🔊

  sun about to rise

  16 strokes