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.

• 日rì🔊

  (bound form) sun

  HSK 1

  4 strokes

• 旧jiù🔊

  old

  HSK 3

  5 strokes

• 旦dàn🔊

  (literary) dawn; daybreak

  5 strokes

• 早zǎo🔊

  early

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 旨zhǐ🔊

  imperial decree

  6 strokes

• 旪xié🔊

  old variant of 協|协[xie2]

  6 strokes

• 旬xún🔊

  (bound form) ten-day period; one of the three ten-day divisions of a month (e.g. 上旬[shang4 xun2])

  6 strokes

• 旭xù🔊

  dawn

  6 strokes

• 旮gā🔊

  used in 旮旯[ga1 la2]

  6 strokes

• 旯lá🔊

  used in 旮旯[ga1 la2]

  6 strokes