noun #12,041

Meanings

  1. 1 sunset; evening; dusk
  2. 2 eve (as in New Year's Eve)

Examples

HSK 5
Chúxī yè quánjiā rén yīqǐ chīfàn.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats together.
HSK 6
Xīyáng hěn měi.
The sunset is beautiful.

Tips

memory
looks like a crescent moon - the moon appears in the evening.

Components

pictograph
evening; sunset
is a pictograph of a crescent moon just visible in the dusk sky - three strokes preserving the half-moon shape from oracle-bone graphs. It is its own indexing radical and sits next to (full moon). builds many, name, dream - all night-flavoured chars.

Radical

Evening Kangxi #36

The radical, a half-moon pictograph for dusk (Shuowen: , from ). A small but vivid Kangxi class: , , , , . Soft semantic clue toward time-of-day or dimness, though most modern uses have drifted from the original sunset image.

Used in

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duō
many · much
gòu
enough · sufficient
wài
outside · foreign
night
huǒ
variant of 伙 · many; much
early in the morning · long-held; long-cherished

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