曦

xī

noun

Meanings

晨曦一透进来，他就起床了。

Chén xī yí tòu jìnlái, tā jiù qǐchuáng le.

As soon as the dawn light came through, he got up.

朝曦照在雪山上，染成了金色。

Zhāo xī zhào zài xuěshān shàng, rǎn chéng le jīnsè.

The morning sun shone on the snowy peaks, dyeing them gold.

曦 is a literary word for early-morning sunlight. It is rare in speech but common in poetry and given names, often paired as 晨曦 (the light of dawn).

radical

日 rì

sun; day

The sun radical on the left, picturing the sun. It tells you 曦 is about sunlight, specifically the soft glow of the rising morning sun.

phonetic

羲 xī

(used in the name Xihe, charioteer of the sun)

Gives the sound xī. It also evokes Xihe, the mythical driver of the sun's chariot, deepening the dawn-light flavor of the character.

曦 xī