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晌

shǎng
noun #88,307

Meanings

  1. 1 midday; part of the day
  2. 2 a short while

Examples

他想了半晌才回答。
Tā xiǎng le bànshǎng cái huídá.
He thought for a good while before answering.

Tips

history
Rarely used alone; it lives in 半晌 (a good while), 晌午 (midday) and 歇晌 (a noon rest). The right side 向 is the phonetic; the 日 radical ties it to the position of the sun.

Components

radical
日 rì
sun; day
The sun radical 日 on the left marks 晌 as a time-of-day word — fixed by where the sun stands, around noon.
phonetic
向 xiàng
toward; direction
On the right, 向 supplies the sound; its old reading gives the shǎng pronunciation here and adds no 'direction' meaning.

Stroke Order

晌 shǎng