noun #75,882

Meanings

  1. 1 eleventh earthly branch
  2. 2 (time) 7-9 p.m.
  3. 3 (zodiac) the Dog

Examples

Wùxū Biànfǎ yòu jiào Bǎirì Wéixīn.
The Reform Movement of 1898 is also called the Wuxu Reform.
Gǔdài xūshí zhǐ wǎnshang qī diǎn dào jiǔ diǎn.
In the old system, the xu period is from seven to nine in the evening.

Tips

mistakes
(earthly branch) looks almost identical to (to garrison) and (heavenly stem). has a short horizontal stroke inside, has a dot, and is empty inside.
culture
As the eleventh of the twelve earthly branches, pairs with the Dog in the zodiac and marks the double-hour around 7-9 p.m. It appears in dated event names like 戊戌变法.

Components

semantic
fifth heavenly stem; a halberd shape
The frame, based on the (halberd) radical, wraps the character; its strokes are split around the inner stroke. It is the weapon-shaped body the branch is built on.
ideograph
one; a single line
The single short horizontal stroke inside is an abstract marker. It distinguishes from the empty and the dotted .

Filed under radical (gē, #62) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

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