旭 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

xù

rising sun

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 九 represents the sound.

Components

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

九 Sound component

jiǔ

nine

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xù

rising sun; brilliance; radiant; dawn

Most common words with 旭

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	旭	dawn
	旭日	the rising sun
	张旭	Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書\|草书
	林旭	Lin Xu (1875-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[WùxūLiùjūnzi] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898