noun #15,184

Meanings

  1. 1 dawn; rising sun

Examples

Xùrì dōng shēng, xīn de yī tiān kāishǐ le.
The morning sun rises in the east, a new day begins.
Tā gěi érzi qǔmíng jiào Xù.
He named his son Xu (dawn).

Tips

usage
is commonly used in names because of its auspicious meaning. The compound 旭日 (xùrì, 'rising sun') is literary. 旭日 is a set phrase meaning 'the morning sun rises in the east.'

Components

radical
sun (radical)
Sun radical tucked into the lower-right corner — the indexing radical, an oblong with a dot inside marking the sun's disc. Anchors in the time/light family with , , , . Here it captures the disc rising over the horizon at daybreak, the dawn glow the character names.
phonetic
jiǔ
nine (here phonetic)
Upper-left supplies the sound, with the regular jiǔ → xù shift along the j-/x- palatal series. The 'nine' sense plays no part in the meaning; pure sound peg here. The phonetic appears in enmity and to investigate (both having moved different directions from the same root).

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